Caregiver Training Resources for Individual or Family Caregivers
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Threshold Therapeutic is committed to improving the safety and wellbeing of the clients we serve, and the caregivers that serve them. We have created a series of resources to provide training and support for our community of devoted caregivers. These resources are designed for professional caregivers, as well as for family members and friends who are caring for loved ones at home.
Threshold Therapeutic’s caregiver training resources provide a unique perspective to the skills needed to care for a client or loved on at home. Crafted by an occupational therapist with expertise in senior home care and rehabilitation, our training resources are designed to integrate self-care skills with expert knowledge in biomechanics, safety, and efficiency to ensure a smooth process for both the client and the caregiver. It is our goal and our passion to ensure that both our clients and their caregivers feel safe, supported, and cared for. Check out our welcome video below to learn more about out resources, or scroll down for more information.
Our Resources:
“A Therapist’s Guide to Caregiving:” Our comprehensive caregiver training manual.
Video Training Courses: A selection of video courses demonstrating all the skills needed to care for a client loved one at home
Live, Hands-on Caregiver Training Classes: Want to host a group class for live training? Learn more!
Meet Your Instructor: Learn more about your trainer and the background for our training classes.
Reviews: See what your fellow caregivers are saying about their training experience.
A Therapist’s Guide to Caregiving
A Comprehensive Training Guide for Caregivers Addressing Patient Handling, Transfers, Self-Care, and Safety
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This comprehensive guide includes 170 pages of full-color instruction with pictures, labels, and step-by-step instructions outlining all the skills needed to safely provide care for a client or loved-on at home. Topics covered include:
Functional Mobility
Transfers
Bed Mobility
Self-Care (Grooming, Toileting, Dressing, Bathing, and Bed Level Care)
Tips for Working with Clients with Dementia
Use of Lift Devices (Sliding Boards, Hoyer Lifts, Sit-to-Stand Lifts)
Fall Prevention and Fall Management
Video Courses
Welcome to our online training courses! We have worked hard to curate courses to help provide you with detailed, in-depth education to help you on your caregiving journey. Our courses are designed by a licensed Occupational Therapist, specializing in home-care, home safety, and rehabilitation. Our trainings are geared towards ensuring the safety of the whole care team. While care typically focused on the client, we also strive to ensure that the caregiver feels safe, supported, and confident. Check below to view our video course packages.
The courses below are for individual use with a single log-in. If you are a caregiver agency or corporation interested in access to video training modules for staff training, please click here to learn about training plans.
This is your comprehensive guide to giving you with the skills you need to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care to family members, friends or clients in the home. This course includes 6 hours of instructional video covering client basic adaptive equipment, functional mobility, lifting techniques, transfers, self-care skills, bed level care, use of client lifts and transfer devices, and managing falls. Click "Preview Caregiver Course" below to preview the lessons and descriptions.
This course provides you with all the information that you need to safely and effectively use a hoyer lift in the home. This course includes 40 minutes of comprehensive video instruction along with electronic access to the 20-page PDF guide. This course will teach you how to properly position and adjust a hoyer lift sling at bed and chair level, how to determine the loop setting, and how to complete safe, smooth transfers to the bed, wheelchair, recliner, and bedside commode.
This includes all 6 hours of video content in the Video-Only Course PLUS access to PDF chapters from our book, "A Therapist's Guide to Caregiving" after each lesson. PDF chapters are in full-color with pictures, labels, and step-by-step instructions for all skills shown in the video. Click "Preview Caregiver Course" below to preview the lessons and descriptions. *Note: PDF chapters are view-only and can only be viewed in your training portal. Chapters cannot be printed, downloaded or shared.
This course provides you with all the information that you need to safely and effectively use a sit-to-stand lift in the home. This course includes 18 minutes of comprehensive video instruction along with electronic access to the 15-page PDF guide. This course will teach you how to properly position and adjust a sit-to-stand lift sling, how to determine the sling loop setting, and how to complete safe, smooth transfers to the bed, wheelchair, recliner, and bedside commode.
Live, Hands-On Caregiver Training Classes
Want a hands-on training experience? If you you are part of a support group who wants to host a live training, contact us to organize a training! Live classes are available in the Charlotte, NC region. For classes outside this region, a travel fee may apply.
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Comprehensive, Hands-on Caregiver Training Courses
Caregiver training courses are offered in two levels, covering skills from basic handling techniques for bed mobility, ambulation and transfers, all the way up to use of mechanical lifts. Trainings can occur at an office location, community center, or on-site with us at our training location for access to a variety of equipment including hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers and patient lifts.
Training packages can be customized to meet the needs of the group. Please contact us for pricing and to design your custom training package.
Training Topics
Our classes can cover a variety of topics including:
Safe lifting techniques
Transfers
Assisting with mobility
Bed and chair positioning
Bed mobility & bed level care
Use of assistive devices
Self-care techniques for dressing, toileting and bathing
Meet Your Instructor
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Mattie Ablitz, OTR/L
We firmly believe that a client is best served when all members of the team feel competent, supported, and safe. This mindset drives how we approach home care. This course was inspired by the clients, families, and caregivers that we have collaborated with and trained over the last several years.
This course was written to meet the needs of family members, professional caregivers, and clinicians looking to advance their patient handling skills. This course is a comprehensive guide, outlining techniques for patient handling, mobility and transfers, and self-care skills. We will discuss methods for assisting clients of all ability levels and needs. For the best and most comprehensive training, this course can be used in combination with our book, “A Therapist’s Guide to Caregiving,” or one of our live, hands-on training classes.
For those who have previous training and patient handling experience, you will note that the patient handling techniques shown in this manual may be different from those that you may have seen, used, or been taught in other settings. The reason for this is that we approach patient handling with the perspective of a therapist. This means that safety, biomechanics, and simplicity are at the forefront of our treatment approach. These techniques are designed to reduce the burden of the caregiver, reduce strain on the back and neck, and to allow the patient to participate safely as much as possible.
Mattie is an occupational therapist with more than 14 years of clinical experience. Mattie specializes in working with adults and seniors in their homes with special focus on home safety, home modifications, rehabilitation, and caregiver training.
Course Background
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