Introduction to the Home Health Aides Course

This unit is built around an interaction between a home health aide and a patient with arthritis. The home health aide arrives at the patient’s home in the morning to help the patient start her day. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Helping with Morning Routine

This unit centers around an interaction between a home health aide and a patient who is recovering from a stroke. The patient has partial paralysis and difficulty speaking. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Supporting a Stroke Recovery Patient

In this unit, a home health aide works with a patient who has dementia. The patient often becomes confused and feels disoriented while the home health aide takes steps to help the patient feel reassured and safe. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Caring for a Patient with Dementia

This unit focuses on an interaction between a home health aide and a patient who has recently had knee replacement surgery and requires short-term care. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Assisting Post-Surgery

This mid-course assessment checks vocabulary and comprehension of the first four units in this English for Home Health Aides course. 

Mid-Course Assessment 

This unit is built around an interaction between a home health aide and a terminally ill patient receiving hospice care. The home health aide works closely with a hospice team to ensure comfort and dignity during the final stages of life. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Supporting End-of-Life Care 

This unit revolves around an interaction between a home health aide and a child with cerebral palsy. The child requires help with mobility, feeding, and hygiene tasks. The aide also engages the child in developmental activities to encourage growth and provide companionship. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Aiding a Child with Special Needs

In this unit, a home health aide cares for an elderly patient who is bedbound due to advanced Parkinson’s disease. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Caring for a Bedbound Patient

This unit centers on an interaction between a home health aide and a patient with diabetes. The home health aide notices signs of a hypoglycemic episode and acts quickly. This unit includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and grammar practice.

Providing Emergency Assistance

This final assessment checks vocabulary and comprehension of the last four units in this English for Home Health Aides course. 

Final Assessment 

This course is centered around common scenarios that involve home health aides and their patients. Students learn and review important English vocabulary and phrases that home health aides use in their day-to-day jobs.