Cost: $125
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This course is designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to ensure the safety and well-being of older adults and those caring for them. Participants will learn about common safety risks and hazards faced by aging adults and their caregivers, as well as strategies for reducing risk and preventing exposure, accidents, and injuries, including identifying and mitigating risks in aging care, legal and ethical considerations impacting safety, and innovations and best practices for reducing or preventing safety hazards in aging care.
Course Objectives
- Able to identify what safety is for an aging population in various care settings.
- Describe best practices in safety related to aging population.
- Examine methods for practicing safety for patients and professionals.
- Practice using ethics when dealing with safety vs: individual’s right of choice.
- Support Health and Safety.
- Explain the importance of aging professionals as an advocate of safety.
- Describe how to prioritize privacy and independence when caring for an aging adult. (Dignity)
- Demonstrate how to empower residents with choice & autonomy. (Dignity)
- Explore how to respect residents’ priorities and rights. (Dignity)
Credit Hours
Success in this 1 credit hour course is based on the expectation that students will spend, for each unit of credit, a minimum of 15 hours over the length of the course (normally 1 hour per unit per week with 1 of the hours used for lecture) for instruction and preparation/studying or course related activities for a total of 45 hours.
Credit Criteria
Grading Scale: Badge/No Badge
Evaluation: 100% completion of badge criteria
Instructor
Robert Miller, LMSW, CDP, DCS, Registered Operator
Adjunct Instructor, Aging Studies Program / Consultant, Private Care Manager, Coach | CAREpitch, LLC
Robert is a native of Wichita, Kansas. He completed his education at Wichita State University, including a bachelor’s and master’s in social work with an emphasis in healthcare. In fact, he is extremely honored to be part of the first graduating class of the then-newly-founded WSU Master of Social Work program, 2001.
Totaling 25 years of professional service, he has worked in a full continuum of healthcare, including acute hospital settings, community medicine, such as home health and hospice, as well as the long-term care arena, specifically dementia care. The accumulation of experiences has led to his understanding of the unique and special needs of the aging and their families.
Robert teaches in the Master of Arts in Aging Studies program.