Family Support for Elderly Patients Course
Gain confidence in supporting elderly patients and their families through effective home-care planning, dementia and fall risk assessment, caregiver burnout prevention, and community resource navigation, all tailored for social work practice. This course equips you with practical strategies to ensure safe, coordinated care at home while addressing key challenges like mobility, nutrition, medications, and family dynamics.

4 to 360 hours of flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What Will I Learn?
This course provides practical tools for safe home care planning, daily routine organisation, and managing mobility, nutrition, sleep, and medications for elderly patients. You will learn to access community services, prevent caregiver burnout, assist families with dementia care, and tackle safety, legal, and communication issues to deliver respectful, consistent home-based support.
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Develop Skills
- Home care planning: design safe routines, mobility support, and fall prevention.
- Dementia family support: explain behaviours and coach calm, practical responses.
- Caregiver burnout prevention: teach stress signs, self-care, and respite options.
- Community resource navigation: link families to local services and respite care.
- Family communication: lead meetings, resolve conflict, and set realistic care goals.
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