Details for Working with Older People

Awards offering Working with Older People

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

• Diploma of Chaplaincy

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Develop relationships with older people, appreciating social, cultural and spiritual differences;
2. Demonstrate skills required to provide serives to older people including suitable referral or advocacy;
3. Demonstrate the skills required to support the rights of older people and develop a respectful intervention framework;
4. Promote the issues of health and re-ablement of older people.

Subject Content

• Theological perspective of ageing
• Human rights
• Aged rights
• Gerontology
• Theories of human development
• Lifestyle changes
• Physical changes
• Healthy grieving
• Possibilities for growth in the later years of life

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to face (onsite)
• Distance/eLearning (online)
• Intensives

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Report (30%)
• Presentation (30%)
• Professional Portfolio (40%)

Prescribed Text

• Tanner, D. 2010, Managing the Ageing Experience, Policy Press, Bristol.

Please consult your instructor before purchasing any texts