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Medical – Protecting Older Adults from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
This educational endeavor empowers healthcare professionals by equipping them with the skills to identify and report instances of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in elderly individuals.
The course ‘Medical – Protecting Older Adults from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation’ imparts crucial knowledge to healthcare providers, enabling them to effectively identify and report any signs of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in their older adult patients.
Educational Goals:
- Define abuse and its impact on the elderly
- Spot the physical, behavioral, financial, and environmental red flags of abuse, and recognize the warning signs of potentially abusive caregivers
- Understand your duty and obligation to prevent and report abuse
Course topics:
- Understanding Abuse
- Recognizing Abuse
- Preventing and Reporting Abuse
Roughly 40 minutes
The course includes ongoing testing to help consolidate the material taught. To obtain a completion certificate, a score of 80% is required. If the pass mark is not initially achieved, participants have the option to retake the course twice.
Upon successful completion of this online course ‘Medical – Protecting Older Adults from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation’, a certificate of completion will be made available for immediate download and printing.
Course Details
Course Length
This course will take roughly 30 minutes
Passing Mark
To pass this training course, you need to score 80% or higher on the quiz
Certificate
Upon the successful completion of this course a certificate with your name will be stored on your profile and available to print
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