Integrated Care for Older People (‎ICOPE)‎: A manual for nurses (‎Facilitator’s Guide)‎

Overview

This manual is an instruction guide for facilitators to provide competence-based training to nurses for the integrated care of older people. The training is intended to help nurses learn and improve their skills in assessing and managing various physical, psychological and social aspects of old age care.

Facilitators are required to consult both the facilitator’s guide and the trainee’s manual when training participants through interactive presentations, group discussions, role plays etc. The facilitator’s guide contains detailed training methodologies, structure of the individual training sessions and guidelines for the assessment of trainees. The trainee’s handbook contains diff erent modules to assist trainees with step-by-step learning of the various aspects of old age care. Training resources are based on “Integrated Care for Older People: A manual for nurses”, which will be the primary reference book for trainees. Henceforth, the book will be referred to as the WHO guidance book in this document. Facilitators should be conversant with the contents of the WHO guidance book, since all modules in the trainee’s handbook are linked to corresponding chapters and the practice sheets in the practice guidelines of the book.”