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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.

Medical – Protecting Older Adults from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation

COURSE OVERVIEW

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

Course topics:

  • Understanding Abuse
  • Recognizing Abuse
  • Preventing and Reporting Abuse

ONLINE COURSE DURATION

Roughly 40 minutes

PASS MARK

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.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

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 PREVIEW

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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