Certificate of Aged Care

• Develop relationships
• Gaining trust
• Approachability
• Body language
• Negative behaviours
• Cultural / social differences
• Dealing with family
• Identify physical disablers
• Quality of life
• Empower the older person
• Barriers to listening
• Work and leisure
• Foreseeable harm
• Negligence
• Supporting rights
• Internal safeguards
• Financial or physical abuse
• Indications of abuse
• Reporting abuse
• Promote health and re-ablement
• Promote health lifestyle
• Preventing falls in home

• Fall prevention strategies
• Falls risk assessment
• Assessment tools
• Carer professional development
• Older persons’ permission
• Potential risk of falls
• Lifestyle factors
• Health and mobility factors
• The aaging process
• SAFE tool assessment
• Intrinsic risk factors
• Checklists / referrals
• Fall prevention strategies
• Explain options to older person
• Reducing risk
• Aged care service providers
• Preventing falls at home
• Residential aged care
• Using restraints
• Safety in bed
• Changes in the home
• Indicators of increased risk
• Fall prevention programs
• Monitor care plan
• Complete documentation

• Individualised plans
• Needs goals and preferences
• Aged Care Assessment Program (ACAP)
• Home care plan
• Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP)
• Home Care Packages (HCP)
• Consumer Directed Care CDC)
• Coordinate services
• Clarify service providers
• Recognise abuse
• Negotiate home help services
• Assistive devices
• Community support agencies
• Level of services required
• Family and carer support
• Respite care
• Effectiveness of individualised plan
• Service provider feedback
• Client feedback
• Client support
• Plan changes

• Conduct risk assessments
• Reasons for assessment
• Client participation in assessment
• Providing client with information
• Communicating respectfully
• Permission and cooperation
• Identify lifestyle risks
• Signs of abuse or neglect
• Physical indicators
• Falls risk assessment
• Medical history
• Identify needs, issues and concerns
• Modifications
• Implementing strategies
• Contribution from carer
• Monitor effects on the older person
• Indicators of increased risk
• Risk minimisation strategies
• Feedback from older person
• Complete documentation

• Types and symptoms of dementia
• Curability of dementia
• Early indications
• Late stages of dementia
• Individualised plan
• Identify care needs
• Physical environment
• Physical and emotional abuse
• Safety and comfort of client
• Validation strategies
• Maintain dignity skills and health
• Maintain independence
• Personal hygiene
• Organise activities
• Support from family / carers
• Carer and home support services
• Behaviours of concern
• Triggers of behaviour
• Observation charts
• Impact of behaviours
• Incident reviews
• Documentation policy
• Self-care strategies
• Stress levels

• Food safety programs
• Risk management methodology
• Critical Control Point Decision Tree
• Personal hygiene / clothing
• Food hygiene risks
• Risk management
• Environmental health officers
• Workplace maintenance
• Storage temperatures
• Food and beverage service
• Cleaning and sanitation
• Receiving and storage procedures
• Checking food quality
• Stock control system
• Dispatching stock
• Nutritional needs
• Food service procedures
• Work flow plans
• Cultural dietary needs
• Special dietary needs
• Meal tray assembly
• Reheating foods
• Meal tray issues
• Food service
• Delivery times
• Preparing client for meals
• Clearing meal trays
• Meal satisfaction
• Insufficient food / fluid intake

• Equipment, process and aids
• Promoting independence
• Extra support services required
• Cultural needs
• Physical and sensory needs
• Legislation requirements
• Health and safety legislation
• Working within scope of job role
• Lifestyle outcomes
• Practical and positive outcomes
• Identifying a person’s likes
• Decision-making
• Activity planning
• Cultural awareness and considerations
• Physical and sensory needs
• Mobility/mechanical devices
• Fall recovery techniques
• Technical care activities
• Maximise client participation
• Personal preference for support
• Confirm client preferences
• Levels of participation
• Preparation for personal support
• Safe task preparation
• Responding to routine difficulties
• Providing choices
• Changes in health requirements
• Weight loss or weight gain
• Infection control procedures
• Privacy and dignity
• Complete documentation
• Organisation policy and protocols

• Client interests, rights and needs
• Overcoming barriers
• Advocacy
• Client referral
• Community attitudes
• SODAS decision-making process
• Client meetings / phone calls
• Client assessment
• Negotiate and implement strategies
• Identify barriers
• Confidentiality
• Client rights and preferences
• Risk management
• Code of ethics
• Legal organisational requirements
• Health professionals/specialists
• Client complaints
• Progress reviews
• Special needs
• Feedback
• Staff competence

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