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Healthy Ageing Online Course

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Discover the Secrets of Healthy Aging

Uncover strategies to optimize both physical and mental well-being as we navigate the aging process, driven by proactive choices and actions.

While maintaining a balanced diet and regular exercise are essential components, as we age, vigilant self-care and timely responses to emerging health concerns become increasingly vital.

Why Study this Course?

Whether you’re seeking insights to navigate your personal aging journey or preparing for a career in elderly care, this course offers invaluable knowledge.

It’s a perfect choice for those aiming to enhance professional skills or establish a solid foundation in working with the elderly.

Career Opportunities:

  • in preventative health, health intervention, assistive therapies, creative therapies, in-homes/ residential care and other facilities;
  • fitness and leisure centres,
  • hospitality and tourism
  • medical centres and hospitals
  • community centres and social groups
  • retail outlets

Study Goals

  • Describe influences on physical, cognitive, personal, and social development from middle-age onwards.
  • Explain different methods of monitoring health in older people.
  • Discuss how a person’s state of mind can be best assisted in adjusting to old age.
  • Explain dietary issues associated with aging, and options for managing those issues.
  • Explain physical issues associated with aging, and options for managing those issues.
  • Describe options for managing the psychological and social wellbeing of older people.
  • Explain the use of various therapeutic techniques for treating the effects of aging.
  • Describe interventions that apply to changing circumstances in aging people.
  • Identify and implement changes in the environment and day to day activities of a person as they move through the stages of aging.

Detailed Course Outline

This course is made up of a number of lessons or units. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. The Aging Process

  • Introduction the Aging Process
  • Biological Definition of Death
  • Approaches to Resilient Aging
  • Gender Disparities in Aging
  • Physical Changes & Development
  • Cognitive Changes & Development
  • Personal Changes & Development
  • Social Changes & Development

2. Monitoring Health

  • Introduction
  • Health Events and Specialists
  • Control of the Heart and Lungs During Exercise
  • Blood Pressure
  • Blood Disorders
  • Weight and Obesity
  • The Use of Diuretics
  • Over Counter Medicines & Prescription Drugs

3. Adapting to a Different Mindset

  • Psychological Wellbeing
  • Adjusting to Growing Older
  • Loss Aversion
  • Bridge’s Transition Model of Change
  • Habit and the Brain
  • Grief and Aging
  • Types of Grief

4. Managing Diet

  • Introduction to Healthy Eating
  • Food Pyramids
  • Food Plates
  • Frequency of Eating
  • Healthy Digestion
  • Developing Routines for Optimal Digestion and Nutritional Health
  • Deterioration in Digestive Health and Elimination Systems

5. Managing Physical Wellbeing

  • Physical Changes
  • Heart Disease
  • Respiratory Disease
  • Ways to Optimise Health

6. Psychological and Social Wellbeing

  • Introduction to Psychological and Social Wellbeing
  • Difficulties Differ
  • Dementia
  • The Effect of Dementia
  • Social Support
  • Benefits of Lifelong Learning

7. Therapies

  • Introduction
  • Medication
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Psychotherapy and Counselling
  • Creative, Eco- and Pet Assistance Therapies

8. Interventions

  • Healthcare and Medical Interventions
  • Pain Related Interventions
  • Health Literacy
  • End of Life Care (Palliative Care)
  • Preparing for Approaching Death

9. Making Activity and Environmental Adjustments

  • Sleep
  • Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Changing the Environment
  • Course Conclusion

When you have completed the lessons of your course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.

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First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical!  You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.  

All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.  

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Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video.  Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important!  Our courses will help you do all that.

We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise.  But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.  

Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.  

 

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First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical!  You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.  

All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.  

This sets our students up for success. 

    • 100% Online
    • Practical 
    • Certificate issued on completion
    • 1-on-1 tutor support
    • Flexible payment options
    • Self paced study

Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video.  Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important!  Our courses will help you do all that.

We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise.  But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.  

Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.  

 

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