CareAcademy
CareAcademy provides online professional development for caregivers of older adults through videos and learning activities on a mobile-optimized platform. Care Academy helps home care agencies and healthcare enterprise employers more efficiently recruit, onboard, train and retain caregivers. Engaging scenario-based content is curated for the needs of caregivers and the health needs of clients.
Key Features
- Caregivers can learn anywhere, anytime on their smartphone, and they are encouraged to complete training via text message and email reminders.
- Engaging bit-sized, scenario-based content to ensure that caregivers understand the correct and incorrect means of providing care
- Curriculum building feature for personalizing training requirements across an agency and for individual caregivers
- Proprietary platform for helping home care and aging-related businesses manage their employee training and reporting requirements across multiple offices and compare across the system.
- Print out live training records for individual agencies and caregivers.
- Bilingual customer success team for administrators and caregivers.
Evidence of Effectiveness
- Based on the article published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society, after completing CareAcademy falls prevention class, 92% of caregivers reported they were very confident in their knowledge about risk factors for falls and interventions for falls prevention.
- In a pilot with Comfort Keepers Sodexo, the Research and Development Offices saved on average five hours a week on training needs and requirements based on a number of factors including efficiency of the platform and caregiver knowledge.
- Over 32,000 caregivers have used CareAcademy to learn and grow professionally, and many have upskilled to higher paying healthcare work.
What They're Saying
Key Tips for Implementation
- Have the names, phone, and email of your caregivers ready for classes
- Beyond state requirements, decide which competencies are needed by your caregivers. Personalize and adapt your curriculum.
- There are plans to fit agencies at any level of scale.
- Reach out to 1-866-227-3895 to schedule a demonstration and find what fits your agency.
Case Study
The EdTech Center @ World Education led field testing of Care Academy in early 2019 to help pilot a new blended learning course leading to certification for home health aides. In-home domestic caregivers studied each week over 10 hours of instruction online before going to an in-person four-hour class for hands-on-practice of the skills studied. Almost all caregivers completed this rigorous schedule over 6 weeks, logging the over 80 hours to qualify them home health care certification in the state of Massachusetts. Researchers found Care Academy fast-tracked the certification of home health care aides, saving them time and money. Participants shared that the intensive schedule was motivating to them that they could gain certification in only 6 weeks and the creative use of video made the lessons engaging and comprehensible.
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