Geriatrics and Gerontology Academy · MINC-GG-004
Community, Caregiver and Age-Friendly Health Services
This 40-hour module develops safe, ethical and context-responsive competence in community, caregiver and age-friendly health services. It comprises 40 one-hour units using guided reading, cases, practice products, knowledge checks, reflection and applied assessment.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Community, Caregiver and Age-Friendly Health Services prepares health workers in Uganda to uphold rights, dignity and safeguarding for older people, and builds from there to design age-friendly services, prepare for emergencies and improve long-term care quality.
What you will be able to do
- Explain core concepts, professional responsibilities and limits.
- Use structured assessment and reliable practical tools.
- Apply evidence-informed decisions with safety, ethics and escalation safeguards.
- Adapt safely to realistic Ugandan resource constraints.
- Communicate, document, reflect and improve performance.
Units
- Rights, dignity and safeguarding: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Rights, dignity and safeguarding: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Rights, dignity and safeguarding: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Rights, dignity and safeguarding: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Rights, dignity and safeguarding: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Caregiver education and wellbeing: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Caregiver education and wellbeing: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Caregiver education and wellbeing: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Caregiver education and wellbeing: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Caregiver education and wellbeing: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Home assessment and risk reduction: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Home assessment and risk reduction: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Home assessment and risk reduction: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Home assessment and risk reduction: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Home assessment and risk reduction: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Community resources and social inclusion: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Community resources and social inclusion: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Community resources and social inclusion: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Community resources and social inclusion: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Community resources and social inclusion: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Age-friendly communication: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Age-friendly communication: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Age-friendly communication: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Age-friendly communication: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Age-friendly communication: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Long-term care quality: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Long-term care quality: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Long-term care quality: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Long-term care quality: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Long-term care quality: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Emergency preparedness for older people: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Emergency preparedness for older people: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Emergency preparedness for older people: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Emergency preparedness for older people: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Emergency preparedness for older people: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Programme design, indicators and improvement: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Programme design, indicators and improvement: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Programme design, indicators and improvement: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Programme design, indicators and improvement: case-based practice in resourcelimited settings (60 min)
- Programme design, indicators and improvement: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
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