“Trainer Training for Professional Personnel Responsible for the Training of Care Personnel in Nursing Homes” was held in Antalya on 12-16 December 2022 in cooperation with our Directorate General and the Department of Education and Publication.

In her speech, our Director General stated that the most important goal of our Directorate General's services is to enable older persons to maintain their lives with active and healthy ageing by aiming to increase their participation in social life and that the care personnel and the professional personnel who train the care personnel have a very important role in the steps to be taken towards this goal. She stated that the work of our Directorate General, especially on individual care planning, will increasingly continue.

In order to contribute to increasing the quality of care services, with the in-service training program organized for the professional personnel who train the care personnel, the professional personnel from different provinces came together and shared their experiences and good practices regarding the cases encountered in practice.

In the program, which lasted for five days and was carried out with the participation of 120 professional personnel, trainings were provided on;

Interactive Teaching Methods and Techniques,

Trainers with High Performance,

Communication Skills and Effective Presentation Techniques,

Elderly Care Services General Scopes Legal Framework,

Coping with Stress/Burnout and Anger Management,

Quality Standards in Elderly Care Services,

Health for Older Persons/First Aid for Older Persons,

Physical Activity and Exercise for Older Persons,

Care of Older Persons and Daily Activity Plans,

Effective communication skills,

Methods of Coping with Behavioral Problems.