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CHCAGE001 Facilitate the empowerment of older people - Diana School of Community Services
Assessment Task
The aim of assessments is to test your knowledge, skills and understanding in relation to the topics being taught within a given course. This will be done by using an assessment criterion which shows what you need to do to achieve the appropriate level of competency. For the purpose of completing a written assessment, you are required to:
• Complete each question, including any sub-questions;
• Provide in-depth research on the topic, using appropriate primary and secondary sources;
• Respond using a clear structure (e.g. Introduction, points of argument or fact, conclusion), including references to the sources used.
All assessments required to be completed are compulsory as it is a required condition of your enrolment.
Activity 1A
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to conduct interpersonal exchanges in a manner that promotes empowerment and develops and maintains trust and goodwill.
1. How can you establish rapport?
2. What is active listening and how can it promote empowerment, trust and goodwill?
3. Give three examples of negative or disempowering communication.
Activity 1B
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to recognise and respect older people's social, cultural and spiritual differences.
1. What does the Equal Opportunity Act say about aged care providers and people's social, cultural and spiritual differences?
2. What is the ‘Living Longer Living Better' aged care reform package?
Activity 1C
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to maintain confidentiality and privacy of the person within organisation policy and protocols.
1. What are your organisational policy and procedures on privacy?
2. What are your organisational policy and procedures on confidentiality?
3. When can you breach confidentiality?
Activity 1D
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to work with the person to identify physical and social enablers and disablers impacting on health outcomes and quality of life.
What is the difference between enablers and disablers? Give three examples of each with your answer.
Activity 1E
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to encourage the person to adopt a shared responsibility for own support as a means of achieving better health outcomes and quality of life.
1. Who will you need to discuss responsibilities for client's care with?
2. Give two examples from your experience of responsibilities that a client has agreed to take.
Activity 2A
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify and discuss services which empower the older person.
How would you identify services that could help to empower an older person living at home?
Activity 2B
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to support the older person to express their own identity and preferences without imposing own values and attitudes and adjust services to meet the specific needs of the older person and provide services according to the older person's preferences.
1. What are the benefits of formal assessments?
2. What other ways can you gather information about a client's preferences?
3. How can you ensure that preferences are not overlooked, misunderstood or miscommunicated?
Activity 2C
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to provide services according to organisation policies, procedures and duty of care requirements.
1. How can you ensure that you know your specific job role and responsibilities?
2. What is duty of care and how can courts determine breaches? (give two examples).
Activity 3A
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to assist the older person to understand their rights and the complaints mechanisms of the organisation.
1. Name five rights that you will need to assist an older person to understand.
2. What is the process for an older person wishing to make a complaint regarding their aged care?
Activity 3B
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to deliver services ensuring the rights of the older person are upheld.
What are the five major rights that older people have, regarding care? Give an example of details for each.
Activity 3C
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify breaches of human rights and respond appropriately and recognise signs consistent with financial, physical or emotional abuse or neglect of the older person and report to an appropriate person.
1. How would you respond if you witnessed or knew an older person's rights were being violated?
2. Define elderly abuse. How can it be identified? What are your organisation's guidelines for responding to elderly abuse cases?
Activity 3D
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to assist the person to access other support services and the complaints mechanisms as required.
1. What topics might a client complain about?
2. What is your organisation process for handling complaints?
3. What possible outcomes could complaints have?
Activity 4A
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to encourage the older person to engage as actively as possible in all living activities and provide them with information and support to do so.
1. What are living activities? Give at least three examples.
2. What is re-ablement and what is involved?
Activity 4B
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to assist the older person to recognise the impact that changes associated with ageing may have on their activities of living.
1. What are the general physical changes associated with ageing?
2. Other than the physical ones, what other changes affect the aged? What are their symptoms and impacts?
Activity 4C
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify strategies and opportunities that maximise engagement and promote healthy lifestyle practices.
1. What strategies can older people adopt to lead a healthy lifestyle?
2. What are the five different food groups?
3. What are the benefits of exercise?
Activity 4D
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify and utilise aids and modifications that promote individual strengths and capacities to assist with independent living in the older person's environment.
1. Name four modifications and four aids that can help assist clients with independent living.
2. What options are available for financing modifications and aids?
Activity 4E
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to discuss situations of risk or potential risk associated with ageing.
1. What are the potential risks or situations of risk associated with ageing?
2. What different communication methods can you use to help elderly people identify situations of risk?
Knowledge Activity
Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to show you have the required knowledge for this unit.
Answer each question in as much detail as possible, considering your organisational requirements for each one.
1. Write an essay which outlines the structure and profile of the aged care sector. Your essay should cover:
» The residential aged care sector
» The home and community support sector
» Current best practice service delivery models
» Relevant agencies and referral networks for support services.
2. What are some of the key issues that older people face? What impact may these have on the life of an older person?
3. Which principles, practices and/or approaches are currently standard implications for work within the aged care sector? (e.g. palliative approach, rights-based approach, etc.). Name at least three, and write a brief description of each.
4. Which sexuality and gender issues may arise as a person ages?
5. Which strategies might an older person be able to adopt in order to promote a healthy lifestyle? Outline at least two.
6. List at two legal obligations and at least two ethical obligations that you must comply with when working with older people. For each, describe in approximately 100 words how you ensure compliance in your work practice.
7. In each of the following areas, list at least two signs that may indicate the abuse and/or neglect of an older person:
» Physical
» Sexual
» Psychological
» Financial.
What should you do if you suspect abuse?
8. How might your own attitude have an impact when working with older people?
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