This is a basic online 40 hour introductory course for individuals needing to prepare  themselves to work with the elderly, disabled, handicapped or any incapacitated person  that needs someone for family aid to assist them in general areas of nutrition, home management, and personal care.

This course does not require that the student have a HS diploma or GED.

Personal Care Aides help people who are elderly, disabled, ill, and/or mentally  disabled to live in their own homes or in residential care facilities instead of in health facilities or institutions. Most personal and home care aides work with elderly or physically or mentally disabled clients who need more extensive personal and home care than family or friends can provide. Some aides work with families in which a parent is incapacitated, and small children needing care. Others help discharged hospital patients who have relatively short-term needs.

Personal and home care aides—also called homemakers, caregivers, companions, and personal attendants—provide housekeeping and routine personal care services. They clean clients’ houses, do laundry, and change bed linens. Aides may plan meals (Including special diets),shop forfood, and cook. Aides alsomay help clients get out of bed, bathe, dress, and groom. Some accompany clients to doctor's appointments or on other errands.