Consuming a healthy and well balanced diet is just as important for the elderly as with any other age group. For elderly people who can no longer look after themselves, it is of vital importance that adequate meals are provided that will meet the nutritional requirements of this age group. This video aims to provide Aged Care Workers with useful information relating to nutrient needs and food sources, portion size and meal frequency and strategies for getting older people to eat.
Grade levels: Adult
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Protecting The Vulnerable – Identifying and Responding to Elder Abuse
Elder abuse is a largely hidden problem. As the proportion of elderly people requiring care increases, it is critical that families, friends, carers and aged care staff are educated to understand the different forms elder abuse can take, and what they can do about it. It is also vital that governments, peak bodies and the aged care industry creates and works within a solid legislative framework that properly deals with this insidious problem in society, ensuring perpetrators are appropriately punished, rehabilitated and that vulnerable elderly people are totally protected from violation of their rights. This program provides an overview of elder abuse, including physical, sexual, financial and psychological abuse and neglect. It also looks at strategies to protect vulnerable elderly people, and appropriate responses to elder abuse.
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Understanding And Managing Type 2 Diabetes
The incidence of diabetes around the world is rapidly rising. Predominant causative factors include age, lifestyle and obesity with up to 90% of the diabetic population having type 2 diabetes. As a direct result of this rise, the need for nurses with diabetic expertise has also risen. This program has been developed as a response to growing demand for diabetic nursing knowledge, signs and symptoms awareness, and management of type 2 diabetes. It will provide an invaluable learning resource for both nursing students and clinical nurses delivering hands-on nursing care.
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Eliminating Bullying and Harassment From the Aged Care Workplace
Workplace bullying and harassment can be the downside to the caring professions. People working in Aged Care routinely provide love, care and support for the frail elderly but quite often they can be less than caring and supportive of each other. This program examines the definitions, types and ramifications of workplace bullying and harassment. The program will also assist employees to identify when they, and others, are being subjected to unfair workplace behaviour and, more importantly, what they can do to stop it and prevent its recurrence thereby creating a safer, happier and more productive workplace for all.
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Theory and Methods
What is valid knowledge in sociology? Using a combination of research in action, case studies and expert analysis, this program looks at some of the different answers sociology has given to this question. It is divided into 5 self-standing parts that can be shown separately or as a whole.
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Aged Care: Communicating with Aged Care Residents
Effective communication with those elderly people living in residential care is the keystone to the delivery of high quality care – care that not only meets the physical needs of patients, but also mental, emotional, social and even spiritual care needs. This high quality program examines the basic elements of communication and how it can be enhanced to meet the care needs of older people who are living with hearing, vision, speech and cognitive losses. The program also looks at effective communication methods for those from culturally diverse backgrounds.
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Aged Care: Communicating with Colleagues
Integral to the operations of any workplace is effective communication between all staff. It is particularly important in any area of health service delivery and care, including an aged care environment. Communication in the workplace takes a variety of forms, and this program looks at the areas particularly relevant to aged care, including verbal and non-verbal communication, formal and informal communication, conflict resolution and negotiation, and communication between staff, and between management and staff. This program will serve as a valuable training and professional development resource for all workers in an aged care environment.
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Effective Wound Management
Safe skilled practice is central to the principles of nursing. With increasing demands for health professionals to strive for higher standards of care, many nurses are returning to the basics which underpin expert clinical practice in order to review and update their current knowledge and skills. Maintaining asepsis in acute wound management is just one of many basic skills which together create a solid foundation on which to build and support excellence in patient care delivery. This program has been developed with the purpose of marrying the principles of infection control with an aseptic – no touch technique thus promoting the optimum environment for wound healing. Chapters include: A basic overview of the physiology of wound healing; Preparing to dress an acute wound; Setting out the basic dressing pack; Performing an Aseptic No touch dressing technique
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Experimental Research Methods
We see a laboratory experiment on attraction in progress. Psychologists explain they are interested in whether the context in which we see someone influences our view of their attractiveness. Two groups of subjects look at the same set of pictures, but the environment is very different for each group. One group are well treated and make their selection in comfort, while participants in the other group are kept waiting and make their selection in a dank, noisy basement room. Will the different contexts influence their grading? In the process we see some of the benefits and drawbacks of the laboratory experiment as it happens.
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Mental Disorders
It’s quite normal to feel worried or sad, but sometimes these feelings can take over us and the normal can become abnormal. We begin by introducing two case studies, Alison who has depression and Karen who has an anxiety disorder. We go on to explore the problematic idea of ‘abnormality’ and how mental disorders might be recognized and classified. The major part of the program is devoted to explaining, illustrating and analyzing three psychological perspectives on mental disorders: Mental Disorder as a Disease of the Body, a Disease of the Mind and as A Social Construction.