Demand on your CARE: Caregiver stress

About this course
This course is part of a MOOC series of the "Jockey Club CADENZA e-tools for Elder Care" funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

This course is open to health and social care professional or anyone who are interested to this subject in committing their effort in helping caregivers to cope with carergiver stress. The government encourages ageing in place. Caregivers play an indispensable role in supporting older adults live at home. Apart from empowering caregivers, it is also important to relieve their caregiving stress. Taking this course will help you understand the caregiving journey, caregiving stress assessment and management, and the ways to promote caregiver engagement, enablement and empowerment.

The course opens on 27 March, 2023 and will run through identical issues till mid of 2025. Let us go through the "Jockey Club CADENZA e-tools for Elder Care" in understanding the caregiver stress.

There are 3 chapters and quizzes in this course. We estimate that you will need to spend no more than 3 contact hours on average to complete the course. It is in self-paced mode. You can study at anytime and anywhere you want. We suggest you could study in a weekly basis for each chapter at your own schedule. Before you start, here is some helpful information for successful completion of this course.

Assessment
After study all the chapters, there will be an assessment consists of 20 quizzes. To facilitate your learning process, the assessment allows multiple attempts. While answering the questions, you are free to refer back to the teaching materials for answers.

After completion of this course with 50% passing marks, certificate of attendance or 3 Council-CNE points certificate (Nurse only) will be awarded. Please refer to the information 'How to get certificate' for details.

What you will learn

• Concepts of formal and informal caregiving
• Caregiving journey
• Warning signs, assessment and coping strategies of carer stress
• Caregiver support in the community

Requirements
There is no entry requirement.

Course Staffs
Prof. Jean Woo
Director
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Dr. Noble Law
Consultant
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Ms. Maggie Wong
Nursing Officer
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

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