Active Curriculum

Health &
Caregiving

Train the next generation of AI-assisted caregivers with future-ready tools.

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Syllabus Overview

Structured learning journey.

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42 Mins

Foundations of Modern Caregiving

This module introduces the foundations of professional caregiving in Canada. Learners explore person-centred care, dignity, independence, common caregiving roles, professional boundaries, observation, communication, documentation, and when concerns should be escalated. The module builds the mindset and core professional behaviours needed for safe, respectful, and compassionate care.

Key Terminology

1Person-Centred Care: Care that respects the individual’s dignity, preferences, abilities, choices, and independence.
2Dignity: Treating every person with respect and recognizing their value and individuality.
3Independence: Supporting a person to do as much as they can safely do for themselves.
4Professional Boundaries: Limits that protect both the care worker and the person receiving care.
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42 Mins

Understanding Common Health Conditions

This module introduces common health conditions frequently encountered in caregiving, including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and arthritis and mobility challenges. Learners develop the ability to recognize meaningful changes from a person’s normal baseline, support safety and dignity, follow care plans, and understand when concerns require reporting or urgent escalation.

Key Terminology

1Baseline: What is normally typical for a person, including their usual behaviour, speech, mobility, appetite, and level of assistance.
2Dementia: A group of symptoms that can affect memory, thinking, communication, judgment, behaviour, and everyday functioning.
3Alzheimer’s Disease: A progressive brain disease and one of the most common causes of dementia. Delirium: A sudden change in thinking, awareness, or behaviour that develops over hours or days and requires prompt attention.
4Diabetes: A condition affecting how the body regulates glucose, or blood sugar.
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42 Mins

Digital Tools for Senior Support

Learn how digital tools can support safe, person-centred caregiving. This module covers health-monitoring apps, medication reminders, telehealth, digital blood-pressure and glucose monitoring, privacy, accessibility, and responsible use of digital information while staying within the caregiver’s professional role.

Key Terminology

1Digital Health Tools: Technology used to support health monitoring, communication, documentation, and care routines.
2Health Monitoring: Using approved digital tools to track health-related information or changes over time.
3Telehealth: Providing or accessing healthcare remotely through video, telephone, or approved digital platforms.
4Medication Reminder: A digital prompt that supports an established medication schedule but does not authorize treatment changes.
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42 Mins

AI Tools for Caregivers

Learn how AI tools can support modern caregiving through smart monitoring, communication, accessibility, documentation and daily organization. This module teaches caregivers to protect privacy, verify AI-generated information, recognize errors and bias, obtain appropriate consent, and use technology without replacing human judgment, empathy or professional responsibility.

Key Terminology

1Artificial Intelligence: Technology that recognizes patterns, processes information or generates outputs to support human tasks.
2Generative AI: AI that creates content such as text, summaries, checklists or activity ideas.
3AI Hallucination: Incorrect or invented information presented by an AI system as if it were accurate.
4Human Oversight: Human review and responsibility for verifying AI-assisted information and decisions.
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42 Mins

Personal Care & ADL Support

Learn how to provide safe, respectful and person-centred assistance with bathing, grooming, dressing, oral care, toileting, continence and eating. This module teaches caregivers to promote independence, protect privacy, follow infection-prevention practices, respect consent, recognize changes and document concerns while remaining within professional boundaries.

Key Terminology

1Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): Essential everyday self-care activities such as bathing, dressing, toileting and eating.
2Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs): More complex tasks that support independent living, including meal preparation, shopping and transportation.
3Person-Centred Care: Support that respects the person’s preferences, abilities, culture, routines and choices.
4Consent: Voluntary permission given after the person understands the proposed care or assistance.
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42 Mins

Mobility & Safe Transfer Techniques

Learn how to support safe mobility, repositioning, walking and transfers while protecting both the caregiver and the person receiving care. This module covers pre-transfer assessment, communication, body positioning, mobility equipment, mechanical lifts, fall response, documentation and professional boundaries.

Key Terminology

1Mobility: The ability to move safely and functionally within an environment.
2Transfer: Movement between surfaces in which the person participates and can safely bear weight.
3Mechanical Lift: Equipment used to move someone who cannot safely bear weight or participate sufficiently.
4Weight-Bearing: The ability to support body weight through one or both legs.
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42 Mins

Nutrition, Hydration & Meal Preparation

Build practical skills for safe nutrition, hydration and person-centred mealtime support, including food safety, allergies, modified textures and swallowing concerns.

Key Terminology

1Nutrition: The process of obtaining and using nutrients needed for energy, repair and normal body function.
2Hydration: Maintaining enough fluid in the body to support normal physical and mental function.
3Dysphagia: Difficulty chewing or swallowing food, fluids or medication.
4Aspiration: Entry of food, liquid, saliva or another substance into the airway.
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Professional Certification

Complete 7 modules to unlock your verified certificate.