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Mental Health First Aid Course

What will I learn?

Improve your skills in caring for older adults with our Mental Health First Aid Course. It's designed to give you the skills to work with elderly folks. Learn how to spot signs of feeling down and worried, get good at talking to them, and build trust by showing you care. Make your work better by thinking about what you do, watching carefully, and writing things down properly. This short and useful course will help you support the mental health of older people, so you can care for them kindly and know what you're doing.

Apoia's Unique Benefits

Online course with lifetime access
Certificate aligned with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
24/7 online support
Select and organise the chapters you want to study
Customise your course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study anytime, no internet required

Build skills

Enhance your practical skills in the areas listed below

Start chats: Get good at starting proper conversations with older patients.

Spot signs of feeling down: Know the important signs of depression in older people.

Build trust: Make good, trusting relationships with older folks.

Write things down properly: Learn how to keep accurate records of how people are behaving.

Encourage mixing with others: Help create social activities that are good for their mental well-being.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but it offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.