Family Caregiver Essentials
The two-hour toolkit for suddenly becoming a caregiver.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
A compact, compassionate starter path for family members thrust into caregiving: home setup and daily-care basics, first-aid fundamentals with US emergency readiness, hands-on CPR technique, and an introduction to dementia communication - drawn from four healthcare courses.
What you'll learn
- Set up a safe home and manage daily care
- Respond to common emergencies with first-aid basics
- Perform adult and child CPR correctly
- Communicate with a loved one who has dementia
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from Home Caregiver Skills for Families
Family Caregiving Essentials
The daily-care essentials families are never taught.
5 lessons · 12m
Family Caregiving Series: Managing Incontinence · Family Caregiving Series: Preparing Your Home for Safe Mobility · Family Caregiving Series: Managing Low Appetite
Module 2 · from Home Caregiver Skills for Families
The Family Caregiver Starter Kit
The starter kit: home safety, paperwork, medications, getting help.
2 lessons · 4m
Setting Up a Safe Home · Paperwork, Medications, and Getting Help
Module 3 · from Everyday First Aid Essentials
The Emergencies You Will Meet First
First-aid fundamentals: AEDs, CPR context, and emergency response.
8 lessons · 29m
A British Sign Language Emergency First Aid Film - Learn CPR · How to Use a Defibrillator (AED) - First Aid Training - St John Ambulance · How to do CPR on an Adult - First Aid Training - St John Ambulance
Module 4 · from Everyday First Aid Essentials
US Emergency Readiness
US emergency readiness: calling 911, Good Samaritan laws, the home kit.
3 lessons · 6m
Calling 911: What Happens and What to Say · Good Samaritan Laws and When to Help · Building the US Home First Aid Kit
Module 5 · from CPR & BLS Awareness for Healthcare and Home
CPR and AED, Adult to Infant
Hands-on CPR technique for adults and children.
8 lessons · 33m
Agonal Respiration (Not Breathing Normally) · Adult CPR · Child CPR
Module 6 · from Dementia & Alzheimer's Caregiving
Understanding the Disease
What dementia is (and isn't), and communication that connects.
2 lessons · 4m
What Dementia Is and Is Not · Communication That Connects