The Australian Carer: A Training Manual for Aged Care Workers,
5th Edition

Helen Croft, Jenny Pitkin, Darren Dee, Ali Moloney

ISBN-13: 9780170452281
Copyright 2022 | Published
696 pages | List Price: USD $80.25

The Australian Carer: A Training Manual for Ageing Support, 5th Edition addresses the Certificate III in Individual Support. It is a practical, down-to-earth training manual for personal care workers in the contemporary health and community services environment. Studying with this textbook will keep you up to date on the latest best practice with the most current content on legislation and funding, palliative care, communications technology and strengths-based care. This textbook also encourages you to reflect on what you’ve learnt and debate aged care issues.

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Part 1 Introduction to working in aged care
1. Ageing in Australia
2. Aged care environments
3. Care teams and the support workers role
4. Caring in the community

Part 2 Actioning care routines
5. Communicating with consumers
6. Care routines supporting physiological and psychological changes
7. Care routines supporting actions of daily living
8. Assisting with self-medication
9. Supporting cultural, spiritual and sexual needs

Part 3 Work health and safety
10. Working safely as a support worker
11. Major WHS priorities - fire safety, manual handling and infection control
12. Safe food handling

Part 4 Ensuring service quality
13. Quality and organisational communication in aged care
14. Advocacy

Part 5 Supporting special care needs
15. Caring for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
16. Caring for people with dementia 1
17. Caring for people with dementia 2
18. Providing palliative care

Appendix 1 Aged Care Quality Standards
Appendix 2 Charter of Aged Care Rights

  • Helen Croft

    The late Helen Croft had a successful career in the field of vocational education and flexible delivery, and was involved with training for aged care from 1997. As the author of market-leading aged care textbooks, Caring in the Community and The Experienced Carer, she had worked in both the public and private sectors including directorships of TAFE and community colleges as well as private consulting roles to major industry and government clients.

  • Jenny Pitkin

    Jenny Pitkin is a skilled educator who currently teaches at Victoria University Polytechnic in Ageing Support and Allied Health Assistance. Jenny also has extensive experience as a case manager working with older people in the community and, within that role, co-created a dementia training program for the general public, which was funded by a grant from the Commonwealth Government. Jenny has many community contacts with whom she meets and consults with to ensure that her teaching is up to date and relevant to the workforce. She also attends educational sessions and seminars related to industry and training.

  • Darren Dee

    Darren Dee is an experienced educator who has been working in vocational education and training for the past six years in the area of community health. Darren specialises in blended learning and online delivery and teaches students studying Ageing Support at Victoria University Polytechnic. Previously, Darren has worked with private registered training organisations and has held numerous positions working in disability, aged care and community care. Darren continues to work closely with industry to ensure the most up-to-date knowledge and practices are reflected within his teaching.

  • Ali Moloney

    Ali Moloney BN, GCert CardiacN, GCert AdvN, GCert FlightN, Cert IV TAE has been working in the vocational sector for the past thirteen years, predominantly in Community Services, Health and Nursing with TAFE Queensland, Gold Coast where she is a leading vocational teacher, as well as a curriculum developer. Ali submitted the proposal for this text.

  • Content aligns to all core units in the Certificate III in Individual Support and to aged care electives with additional content on palliative care, and diversional therapy

  • Real-world case database: scenarios that provide students with examples of workplace experience

  • Two new Appendices: Aged Care Rights and Quality Standards for Aged Care

  • Ancillary assets referencing government infection control training for aged care workers

  • Clearly aligned to competencies for course delivery

  • Contextualised to the Aged Care environment for specialised carers

  • Ancillary material assists in lesson planning and teaching

  • New appendices - Aged Care Rights, and Quality Standards for ease of reference

  • Instructor's Resource Pack - Premium resources that provide additional instructor support are available for this text, including additional cases, Test Bank, competency-based activity sheets. These resources save you time and are a convenient way to add more depth to your classes, covering additional content and with an exclusive selection of engaging features aligned with the text. The Instructor Resource Pack is included for institutional adoptions of this text when certain conditions are met. The pack is available to purchase for course-level adoptions of the text or as a standalone resource. Contact your Cengage learning consultant for more information.

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The Australian Carer Instructor's Manual
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