Sleep - Aged Care Quality Standard 3
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Sleep - Aged Care Quality Standard 3

Improve daily life for the elderly by identifying barriers to good sleep and using strategies that promote restfulness

Aged Care Learning Solutions
Updated May 16, 2019

This course covers the following:

  • Ageing related changes
  • Assessing and Managing sleep problems

Business Objectives

Quality sleep is essential to physical and mental well-being. Recognizing barriers to good sleep and using strategies to minimise disturbances and promote restfulness can have a dramatic impact on the quality of peoples’ everyday life. This topic outlines the elements of quality sleep as well as the age-related changes and other risks to sleeping patterns and routines. A person centred approach to assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating sleep is presented to the learner. Sleep aligns to Standard 3 of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

Audience

This learning activity is for Aged Care workers