Course Details
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- Topics: Healthy Aging & Older Adults
- Audience: Community Health Workers (CHWs)
- Format: Self-Paced Module
- Language: English
CHW Healthy Aging Specialty Track
Module 9: CHW Self-Care in Aging Work
Helps you cope with different types of grief and loss, recognize burnout, compassion fatigue, and the "strong helper" trap, set and maintain emotional boundaries, and build practical recharge habits into your workday — plus how to access supervision and peer support when you need it.
Learning objectives:
- Identify strategies for coping with grief and loss when working with aging clients and families
- Apply techniques to set and maintain emotional boundaries while providing empathetic support
- Recognize early signs of burnout and compassion fatigue and describe one workday action to restore resilience
- Locate peer or organizational supports that sustain long-term engagement in aging-related work