Diploma of Ageing & Pastoral Care

The Diploma offers you knowledge and practical skills related to:

• The process of ageing and the physical, emotional and spiritual challenges involved.
• Effective communication skills
•  Assessing and meeting needs
• Team approach to meeting needs
• Practical strategies to promote resident well being and meet Accreditation Standard 3
• Understanding of Spirituality
• The spiritual tasks of ageing
• Ethical issues and ageing
• Ritual and  celebration in the lives of the elderly
• Devotional practice
• Personal growth and formation
• Dying and Death
• Dementia

Requirements

A commitment to work 8 hours per week with the elderly in a residential aged care facility or community context for the duration of each unit (96 hours).

Pastoral Care consists of four units

• Ageing & Pastoral Care
• Challenges of Pastoral Care
• Dementia and Pastoral Care
•  Dying, Death and Pastoral Care

Each unit consists of three modules

• A module is a two day block of teaching/learning in a group environment
• Attendance is from 9:30am to 4:00pm each day
• The two day teaching/ learning  workshops are held once a month over a three month period,  in February – June and August - November
• Between face to face sessions participants will be required to engage in pastoral care in a residential care or community setting
• The four units can be completed in two years
• Individual course units may be offered

Course Assessment

• The course covers 10 units of Competency which are assessed on an ongoing basis throughout the course

Course Fees

• Current course fees are $450 per unit
• Holy Family Services is a Registered Training Organisation
• The Diploma of Ageing and Pastoral Care is a Nationally Accredited Course