10 Caregiver Training Courses

Caregiver Training Course #1 - Understanding Dementia

The first caregiver training course on this list is Understanding Dementia by EdApp. When it comes to caregiving, the role is typically associated with caring for the elderly and people with different disorders, like dementia. Providing care for people with dementia has unique requirements and challenges, like memory loss, so you need to be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge before giving care to patients with this disorder. In this four microlesson course, you’ll learn about what dementia is, how to take care of your health while caring for someone with dementia, how to communicate with them, and how to give proper caregiving for different stages of dementia. 

This course makes use of gamification and microlearning strategies to help increase information retention. EdApp is also a mobile-first, microlearning app that makes it possible to take your training anywhere at any time, making learning convenient and simple.

• Cost: Free
• Certification: Available
• Scope: What is dementia, caregiver health, communication, caregiving for different stages of dementia

Created by EdApp

Caregiver Training Course #3 - Introduction to Caregiving - Revised

Alison offers an Introduction to Caregiving that’s regularly updated to keep its learners stay up to date with new information regarding care services. This course introduces what is involved in working as a professional caregiver. Here, you will learn the fundamentals of caregiving such as the roles and responsibilities of carers, legal and ethical issues in caregiving, and communication in caregiving and long-term care. You will also learn fundamental skills like stress management, reporting and documenting, and cultural difference awareness in caregiving. At the end of the courses, you will take an assessment and can receive a certificate if you score at least 80% or higher. 

• Cost: Free
• Certification: Available
• Scope: Fundamentals of caregiving, fundamental skills in caregiving, course assessment

Created by Alison

Caregiver Training Course #5 - The Basics of First Aid

It’s always better to be safe than sorry, so learning basic first aid should be included in your list of caregiver training courses taken. The Basics of First Aid by EdApp is recommended to be taken as a refresher course, but it’s also applicable to those taking a first aid training course for the first time. Here, you will first learn how to assess the scene and determine what type of first aid is required. It then teaches you how to deal with different injuries like bleeding, shock, heart attacks, choking, electrical shock, eye injuries, and more in just five microlessons. 

Thanks to EdApp’s AI translation feature, you can take this course in a language that’s easier for you to understand. With over 100 different languages, EdApp helps increase and improve readability to make your learning more accessible. 

• Cost: Free
• Certification: Available
• Scope: Assess the scene, bleeding and shock, heart attacks and choking, electrical shock and eye injury, burns and broken bones, heat, fainting and seizures

Created by EdApp

Caregiver Training Course #6 - Family Caregiver Online Training

Generations Home Care’s Family Caregiver Online Training course is a free online course that covers 40 hours of training, with over 25 hours dedicated to Alzheimer’s and dementia training. Besides covering the two disorders, you will also learn about human needs and development, emergency first aid, skincare, life care, care planning, and more. Additionally, you’ll go over other health and nutrition topics like preventing weight loss and improving diet. Lastly, this course also discusses different perspectives and communication methods that can be applied in caregiving and caregiver support. 

• Cost: Free
• Certification: None
• Scope: Alzheimer’s and dementia training, emergency first aid, skincare, life care, care planning, health & nutrition, different perspective and communication methods

Created by Generations Home Care

Caregiver Training Course #8 - Health and Safety for Caregiving Revised

Another course from Alison, Health and Safety for Caregiving will teach learners how to provide pain relief and perform different types of physical therapy. You will learn more about infections, nutrition, and food safety in the first module, and emergencies, falls, and fire safety in the second module. The last module is a course assessment that covers lessons and key concepts taught in both modules. The course can be finished in three hours, and even comes with certification. In just 3 hours, you can learn about the knowledge and training required to work as a physical therapy aide at an adult day care. 

• Cost: Free
• Certification: Available
• Scope: Infections, nutrition, food safety, emergencies, falls, and fire safety. 

Created by Alison

Caregiver Training Course #10 - Introduction to Safe Patient Handling

The last caregiver training course is Introduction to Safe Patient Handling by EdApp. This course teaches how to avoid occupational injuries while improving the quality of patient care. You will go through three microlessons that give an overview of the benefits of safe patient handling, methods on how to identify health hazards, and methods on how you can safely lift, transfer, and reposition patients. The methods taught can be applied in many scenarios such as bathing your clients. Each lesson can be completed in as short as five minutes. 

This course offers different types of assessments to test and gauge your level of understanding. You can rest assured that with this course you will be given enough time and activities to keep you engaged with the lessons throughout your learning experience. 

• Cost: Free
• Certification: Available
• Scope: Overview and benefits of safe patient handling, identifying health hazards, lifting, transferring, and repositioning

Created by EdApp