Geriatric Health Free Course
This course equips learners with essential skills to support elderly health, focusing on safe medication management, fall prevention, effective communication, community care planning, and addressing age-related challenges to enhance safety and independence.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This free course teaches you practical skills to help older people with confidence. You will learn about main changes that come with age, common long-term illnesses, checking mental health, and handling medicines safely using tools to reduce unnecessary ones. You will build good ways to talk, adjust to problems with senses or thinking, stop falls in the home, and make small plans based on evidence to boost safety, self-reliance, and better living for elders.
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Develop skills
- Review medicines for elders: use Beers, STOPP/START to prescribe more safely.
- Stop falls in older people: check home dangers, fit walking aids, and teach balance exercises.
- Talk in ways that suit thinking problems: adjust for forgetfulness, hearing loss, sight issues, and reading difficulties.
- Plan small health programmes: set up, carry out, and follow small projects for elder wellness.
- Care for elders in the community: combine long-term illness care, mental health support, and social help.
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