Coursera

Foundations for Assisting in Home Care (Coursera)

Offered by The State University of New York,

This course is intended as a self-study course for those interested in exploring a career as a Home Health Aide or Personal Care Aide.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see Coursera's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

Syllabus

Week 1: Course Information Documents
Week 2: Module 1 - Introduction to Home Health Care
Week 3: Module 2 - Working Effectively with Home Care Clients
Week 4: Module 3 - Working with the Elderly
Week 5: Module 4 - Working with Children
Week 6: Module 5 - Working with People Who Are Mentally Ill
Week 7: Module 6 - Working with People with Developmental Disabilities
Week 8: Module 7 - Working with People with Physical Disabilities
Week 9: Module 8 - Food, Nutrition, and Meal Preparation
Week 10: Module 9 - Family Spending and Budgeting
Week 11: Module 10 - Care of the Home and Personal Belongings
Week 12: Module 11 - Safety and Injury Prevention
Week 13: Module 12 - Personal Care

Go to Class

MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Coursera

Rutgers University

Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 3: How Does It All End? (Coursera)

Social Sciences

Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body. Why are soul and afterlife beliefs so common in human history? Are there adaptive advantages to assuming souls exist?

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Mind Psychology

Coursera

University of Florida

TECH MeD: Transdisciplinary Education for Critical Hacks of Medical Devices (Coursera)

Health & Society Science

This course seeks to create an informed public, aware of the technical, medical, legal, and ethical issues associated with implantable medical devices. The course features conversations with experts from a variety of relevant fields to discuss the present and future technological, ethical, legal, and social challenges associated with implantable medical devices.

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Education Medical Device

Coursera

University of Copenhagen

The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health (Coursera)

Sci: Biology & Life Sciences Food & Nutrition

The New Nordic Diet is a new food culture developed in 2009-13 with key emphasis on gastronomy, health, and environment. Major research in its effect on acceptability, behaviour and learning skills, and disease prevention have been conducted by the OPUS centre at the University of Copenhagen and the people behind the award-winning restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. This course will give the participants the opportunity to experience a healthy and palatable new food and eating concept diet “The New Nordic Diet” and an understanding of how food and diets can affect mental and physical health and ensure the foundation for a healthier life style for future generations with a regional based diet and food culture.

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Food Diet

Coursera

Leiden University

Population Health: Predictive Analytics (Coursera)

Statistics & Data Analysis Data Science

Predictive analytics has a longstanding tradition in medicine. Developing better prediction models is a critical step in the pursuit of improved health care: we need these tools to guide our decision-making on preventive measures, and individualized treatments. In order to effectively use and develop these models, we must understand them better. In this course, you will learn how to make accurate prediction tools, and how to assess their validity. First, we will discuss the role of predictive analytics for prevention, diagnosis, and effectiveness. Then, we look at key concepts such as study design, sample size and overfitting.

Sep 28th 2026

4 Weeks

Health Data Analysis Predictive Analytics

Coursera

George Washington University

Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

Ensuring patient safety and healthcare quality is critical and should be a key focus of everyone in healthcare practice. This course provides healthcare practitioners and others with an introduction to the knowledge and skills needed to lead patient safety and quality improvement initiatives at the micro and macro levels. Participants will explore the foundations of health care quality and the science underlying patient safety and quality improvement, design and select effective health care measures, analyze patient safety problems and processes using tools such as human factors analysis, apply systematic approaches including the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model to address quality improvement challenges, and learn strategies to lead a culture of change

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Healthcare Measurement

Coursera

University of Lausanne

Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences (Coursera)

Social Sciences Sports

The objective of this course is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines get into a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping. Doping in sports is a complex practice whose definition and identification is the result of socially and historically constructed norms. This course offers to shed light on the processes that led to the use and prohibition of doping substances.

Sep 28th 2026

4 Weeks

Health Sports Social Sciences

Coursera

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life (Coursera)

Sci: Biology & Life Sciences

What is a genome? A genome contains all of the information that a cell needs to develop, function, and reproduce itself, and all the information needed for those cells to come together to form a person, plant, or animal. Genomes contain an organism’s complete set of genes, and also the even tinier genetic structures that help regulate when and how those genes are used. The ability to regrow a torn ligament, the clues that might predict the onset of mental illness, the nutritional potential of crops, and even the history of life itself, are all encoded in genomes. By taking this course, you will discover how scientists are deciphering the language of genomes to learn how to develop sustainable food and fuel supplies, improve disease treatment and prevention, and protect our environment.

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Biology Genes

Coursera

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Regulated Competition in Healthcare Systems: Theory & Practice (Coursera)

Health & Society

In this MOOC you will learn about the theory and practice of 'regulated competition' (also known as 'managed competition') in healthcare systems. Many countries have implemented or consider implementation of regulated competition in healthcare. Examples include Australia, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States.

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Healthcare Healthcare Systems

Coursera

Johns Hopkins University

Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

Public Mental Health is the application of the principles of medicine and social science to prevent the occurrence of mental and behavioral disorders and to promote mental health of the population. This course illustrates the principles of public health applied to depressive disorder, including principles of epidemiology, transcultural psychiatry, health services research, and prevention. It is predicted that by 2020 depressive disorder will be the most important cause of disease burden in the entire world! Every human being suffers from feeling depressed at some point or other, but only about one fifth of the population will experience an episode of depressive disorder over the course of their lives.

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Medicine Health Epidemiology

Coursera

Johns Hopkins University

Application of Health Equity Research Methods for Practice and Policy (Coursera)

Health & Society

Intended for students who have completed the introduction to health equity research course and/or have previous experience working in this area. This course will cover innovative methods, practical tools, and skills required to conduct rigorous health equity research and translate evidence-based strategies into practice and policy.

Sep 28th 2026

5-12 Weeks

Health Public Health Health Policy

Coursera

Johns Hopkins University

Diagnosing Health Behaviors for Global Health Programs (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

Health behavior lies at the core of any successful public health intervention. While we will examine the behavior of individual in depth in this course, we also recognize by way of the Ecological Model that individual behavior is encouraged or constrained by the behavior of families, social groups, communities, organizations and policy makers. We recognize that behavior change is not a simplistic process but requires an understanding of dimensions like frequency, complexity and cultural congruity. Such behavioral analysis is strengthened through the use of a toolkit of theoretical models and practical frameworks.

Sep 28th 2026

4 Weeks

Health Healthcare Behavior

Coursera

Leiden University

Population Health: Study Design (Coursera)

Health & Society

Health care professionals increasingly have to make clinical decisions in aging and diverse populations. Also, they have to deal with rising health care costs, fragmented health care supply and advancing medical technologies and IT systems. These developments go beyond every day practice and will require new skills. In this course we will walk you through key steps in designing a research study, from formulating the research question to common pitfalls you might encounter when interpreting your results.

Sep 28th 2026

4 Weeks

Health Healthcare Research