Providing Personal Care Services to Elders and People with Disabilities

Responding to a need for a better trained and better integrated long-term care workforce, PHI has developed this adult learner-centered, competency-based curriculum for personal care workers.

This 77-hour Personal Care Services curriculum was designed to meet three major goals: to help participants develop the core competencies needed to provide person-directed personal care in a range of long-term care settings; to introduce potential workers to all the different settings; and to lay the foundation for further training as nurse assistants and/or home health aides.

This Personal Care Services curriculum can be used in two ways. As a stand-alone curriculum, it can be used to train workers who provide personal care services in people’s homes or in assisted living or other residential facilities. And it can be used as a first level of training to prepare workers for jobs in nursing facilities and home health care agencies.

• A CD with all the material in both PDF and Word formats can be ordered for $25: Order Form (pdf)
• Download:
  • Introduction
    Cover, Table of Contents, Introduction (pdf 423KB)
  • Section A: Introduction and Orientation to Direct-Care Work
    Modules 1-2 (pdf 391KB)
  • Section B: Foundational Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills
    Modules 3-8 (pdf 1.6MB)
  • Section C: Person-Centered Care
    Modules 9-19 (pdf 1.9MB)
  • Section D: Other Issues that Apply Across Work Settings
    Modules 20-21 (pdf 755KB)
  • Appendices
    (pdf 1.2MB)
• Learn more about PHI’s direct-care worker training services.