| Abstract: | This article presents a model curriculum in human development for home companions caring for older adult clients in the home care setting. This curriculum is designed to connect cognitive and affective learning by relating stage developmental tasks, as discovered by the home companions through the curriculum, to those experienced throughout life by their clients. Techniques that promote growth and development of both companion and client are explored with a focus on psychosocial dilemmas and constraints imposed by the aging process. The key concepts of life review, long‐term memory within a reminiscence framework, locus of control, autonomy, and relational aspects are addressed from a developmental perspective. |
