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CHCAGE001
FACILITATE THE EMPOWERMENT OF OLDER PEOPLE
(Written activity)
1. Methods to develop relationships with older people in the context of community services
include;
 Conduct interpersonal exchange in a manner that promotes empowerment and
develops and maintains trust and goodwill.
 Provide accurate information that will help them exercise choice and maximize
independence to manage their own lives, understand their options and engage
with and actively participate in their community.
 Recognize and respect older peoples social, cultural and spiritual differences by
usbeing empathic, unbiased and non-judgmental.
 Maintain confidentially and privacy of the person within organizational policy
and protocols
 Encourage the person to adopt a shared responsibility for own support as a means
of achieving better health outcomes and quality of live.
2. In working in community services I plan to provide services to older people by:
 Identify and discuss services which empower the older person and support the
older person to express their own identity and preferences without imposing own
values and attitudes.
 Adjust services to meet the specific needs of the older person and provide services
according to older person’s preferences
 Provide services according to organizational policies, procedures and duty of care
3. The following can be done to support the rights of older person:
 Assist the older person to understand their rights and the complaints mechanism
of the organizations
 Deliver services ensuring the rights of the older person are upheld and identify
breaches of human rights and respond appropriately
 Recognize signs consistent with financial, physical or emotional abuse or neglect
of the older person and report to an appropriate person
 Assist the person to access other support services and the complaints mechanism
as required
4. One can promote health and re-ablement of older people within the context of community
services by:
 Encourage the older person to engage as actively as possible in all living activities
and provide them with information and support to do so and assist the older
person to recognize the impact that changes associated with ageing may have on
their activities of living.

 Identify strategies and opportunities that maximise engagement and promote
healthy lifestyle practices and work with the person to identify physical and social
enablers and disablers impacting on health outcomes and quality of life
 Identify and utilise aids and modifications that promote individual strengths and
capacities to assist with independent living in the older person’s environment
 Discuss situations of risk or potential risk associated with ageing
5. One’s attitude can affect the way one work with older people it enhances ones
professionalism and ethical work practice.