Essential Training to Care for Your Loved Ones

The ‘ABCs of Caregiving’ Course covers all essential skills needed to care for your loved one’s daily needs, based on their mobility condition. The home-based or classroom-based courses are tailored for informal caregivers, including Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs).

You can choose from 3 sets of courses depending on your loved one’s mobility conditions:

  • Set A: For caring for seniors who are Ambulant
  • Set B: For caring for seniors who are Bedbound
  • Set C: For caring for seniors using wheelChair

Topics Covered

  Set A: For caring for seniors who are
Ambulant
Set B: For caring for seniors who are
Bedbound
Set C: For caring for seniors using wheelChair
The Fundamentals
  • Understanding ageing and communicating with seniors
  • Monitoring vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate) and managing emergencies
  • Infection control (including hand hygiene and simple wound care) and basic skincare
  • Serving oral medication (including reading of medication labels)
  • Simple exercises for seniors
  • Nutrition and Hydration (including different types of diet, and what makes up a balanced diet for seniors)
Assistance in Daily Tasks Modules
  • Feeding (oral or Tube)
    Note: If the senior is on tube-feeding, the module “Nutrition and Hydration” would not be covered.</p
Modules to Suit Seniors’ Mobility Conditions:  
Toileting
  • Identifying abnormalities
  • Use of bedpan, urinal, and diaper changing
  • Use of commode and diaper changing
Personal Hygiene
  • Assisted Showering
  • Assisted showering or Bed bath
  • Assisted showering
Mobility
  • Use of Walking sticks, Walking frame
  • Fall prevention
  • Positioning and turning in bed
  • Managing pressure injuries
  • Use of wheelchair

Course Details

Apply for Training

Step 1: Identify which set you need.

Step 2: Refer to the courses here to find out more about the course details (eg. course fees and duration).

Step 3: Contact your preferred training provider directly to schedule a time slot. If you would like to tap on the Caregivers Training Grant to offset the course fees, please inform the training provider and they will apply for the grant on your behalf.

You may view other available caregiving training courses on our Caregivers Training Catalogue.

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