What does this course cover?
This free half-hour online video course helps you explore practical aspects of providing care for family members or friends who, because they're disabled, ill or elderly, couldn’t manage otherwise. The topics covered include:
- How much time does caregiving take?
- What might caring for a relative or friend involve?
- Why care?
- Who's involved in caring?
- Where to provide care?
- What about your own life? and
- Going forward?
Who is this course for?
As well as helping carers and those who may have caring on the horizon, this is a great free resource that benefits a wide range of people – HR Managers, Line Managers, and carers' colleagues, relatives and friends … in fact, anyone who wishes to better understand caregiving so as to support those who are providing unpaid care for people who are disabled, ill or elderly.
When is the start date for What does caring for disabled, ill or elderly people involve?
You can start right now! Just click on the First Part of the course in the Course Schedule below.
That's the great thing about online video courses - you can do them whenever you have internet access. You choose the pace and the place of your training and, because each of our videos are short, they're easy to watch in between the other calls on your time.
Course Presenter
Annette Merrick has looked after relatives with serious medical conditions for over 25 years whilst bringing up her family and juggling a busy workload. Having worked in large companies and small start-up businesses, now as a professional Caregiving Coach she uses this experience to help people who provide care for their family and friends, so that they can build themselves a better quality of life – whether they are combining caring with employment or have caring as a full-time commitment.