Geriatric Health Free Course
This course provides essential knowledge and practical skills for supporting the health and well-being of elderly individuals, focusing on age-related changes, illness management, safety, and community care.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This free course equips you with practical skills to support older people with confidence. You will learn about key changes that come with age, common long-term illnesses, mental health checks, and safe handling of medicines using tools to reduce unnecessary drugs. You will build good communication skills, adjust to sensory or thinking challenges, prevent falls in the home, and create small, evidence-based plans to promote health that boost safety, self-reliance, and better living for the elderly.
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Develop skills
- Review of medicines for the elderly: use Beers and STOPP/START to ensure safer prescriptions.
- Preventing falls among older people: check home dangers, provide suitable aids, and guide on balance exercises.
- Communication suited for thinking challenges: adjust for dementia, hearing loss, sight problems, and low literacy.
- Create small health programmes: plan, carry out, and monitor brief projects for elderly wellbeing.
- Elderly care in the community: combine management of long-term illnesses, mental health, and social assistance.
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