Study Guide

Objective

The student can identify services that enable people to live at home and their role in the service system for older people and in services that promote well-being and health in older people. They will be able to assess the needs of older people and identify situations where services are inadequate and refer clients to appropriate services. They will identify multidisciplinary networks and be able to work as part of a network. The student knows the working methods that support living at home and can apply them in client work. They will recognise the importance of community and voluntary work in the well-being of older people. They will be familiar with foreign practices and forms of entrepreneurship in enabling people to live at home.

Content

- services facilitating living at home (municipal home care, adult family care, volunteer work) as forms of organizing old people’s services, relevant legislation
- possibilities and methods of supporting living at home outside home care
- forms of close contact work to facilitate living at home, multiprofessionalism
- communal and intermediate living
- special competence required to work in people’s homes
- client and resource-centred approach (physical and psychical accessibility)
- the importance of inclusion and community in living at home
- international forms of home living
- ways that entrepreneurs can support living at home
- systematical rehabilitation to add meaningfullness of everyday life

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students are able to describe services that facilitate living at home and ways of implementing such services. Students recognizes concepts pertaining to these services and know how to seek various sources of information.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students see the role that services facilitating old peoples’ living at home can have as part of the service provision system, and they recognizes the potential and challenges involved in them. Students are capable of working in home care and they observe the relevant legislation and guidelines. Students see the potential involved in a multiprofessional approach to home care.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students are able to analyse and evaluate the role that services facilitating old peoples’ living at home can have as part of the services designed to support the health and welfare of older people. Students recognize development needs in home care practices and apply their knowledge to develop them. Students know how to evaluate the safety of the practices and they take ethical principles into consideration.