Older adults’ needs

Essential for

• Home care aide
  Home care aides provide personal assistance and promote autonomy, on a daily basis to individuals who are unable to take care of themselves due to illness, ageing or disability.…
• Gerontology social worker
  Gerontology social workers provide assistance to elderly individuals and their families helping them to cope with their biopsychosocial needs. They help connecting the elderly with…
• Residential home older adult care worker
  Residential home older adult care workers counsel and support the elderly who have physical or mental disabilities. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a posi…
• Homelessness worker
  Homelessness workers provide on-the-spot assistance, counselling and advice to people who have housing problems or live on the streets. They present them with services available to…
• Community care case worker
  Community care case workers perform assessment and care management. They organise domiciliary services to support vulnerable adults who are living with physical impairment or conva…
• Military welfare worker
  Military welfare workers assist families in coping with the deployment in the military of a family member by supporting them through the adjustment process of leaving and returning…
• Mental health social worker
  Mental health social workers assist and provide counselling to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on providing personalised support to cases and…
• Palliative care social worker
  Palliative care social workers provide assistance and counselling to patients with a chronic or a terminal disease and their families with the practical arrangements. They arrange …
• Adult community care worker
  Adult community care workers perform assessment and care management of communities of adults who live with physical impairments or convalescing states. They aim to improve their li…

Optional for

• Legal guardian
  Legal guardians legally assist and support minor children, mentally disabled persons or incapacitated older adults in their personal life. They can manage their property, help with…
• Social worker
  Social workers are practice-based professionals who promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. They interact with individ…
• Homeopath
  A Homeopath is a healthcare professional who practices homeopathy, a system of alternative medicine that focuses on the principles of "like cures like" and the use of highly dilute…
• Hospital social worker
  Hospital social workers provide counselling to patients and their families helping them to better cope with the illness, the emotions surrounding diagnosis, and with social and fin…
• Auxiliary nursing and midwifery vocational teacher
  Auxiliary nursing and midwifery vocational teachers instruct students in their specialised field of study, auxiliary nursing and midwifery, which is predominantly practical in na…
• Social care worker
  Social care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolesc…
• Patient transport services driver
  Patient transport services drivers transfer disabled, vulnerable and elderly patients to and from health care facilities such as hospitals or social care settings. They drive the a…
• Social services manager
  Social services managers have the responsibility for strategic and operational leadership and management of staff teams and resources within and or across social services. They are…
• Elderly home manager
  Elderly home managers oversee, plan, organise and evaluate the provision of elderly care services for people who are in need of these services due to the effects of ageing.…
• Personal trainer
  Personal trainers design, implement and evaluate exercise or physical activity programmes for one or more individual clients by collecting and analysing client information. They st…