Study Guide

Objective

Students are aware of the services that enable old people’s living in their own homes and understand the role of these services as part of the service provision system that supports the health and wellbeing of older people. Students are able to assess what services the aged clients of municipal home care and recipients and providers of informal care might require. They know about multiprofessional networks pertaining to informal care and municipal home care and know how to implement services, various forms of support and other means of facilitating aged people’s and their families’ living at home. Students are able to assess prerequisites for informal care or adult family care, and to evaluate the meaning of such care for aged people and families in various life situations. Students are able to explain the role of volunteer work and aged people’s own involvement as part of community work. Students understand the meaning of communities for aged people’s welfare and wellbeing. Students recognize the potential and challenges involved in municipal home care and adult family care. They are able to assess the challenges and competencies required in home care.

Content

- services facilitating living at home (municipal home care, adult family care, volunteer work) as forms of organizing old people’s services, relevant legislation
- forms of close contact work to facilitate living at home, multiprofessionalism
- planning, implementation and evaluation of home care (care and service plan)
- special competence required to work in people’s homes
- client and resource-centred approach
- the meaning of client involvement and communities in home care

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students are able to describe services that facilitate living at home and ways of implementing such services. Students understand 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 understand 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.