✓Excellent CaretakersCaregiver Training

Continuing education · California

Annual Caregiver Training

Refresh essential care skills with five sections, practical activities and a final assessment. Annual training is an additional five hours, separate from new-hire orientation.

Dementia care is included now, ahead of the January 1, 2027 requirement. Employers adapt the activities to the people served and verify actual training hours.

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Section 1

Client rights, dignity and safety

Respect choices, protect privacy, identify hazards and respond within your non-medical role.

Section 2

Daily living needs and changes in condition

Support independence with meals, routines and mobility, and communicate changes promptly.

Section 3

Recognizing, preventing and reporting abuse

Recognize warning signs and follow California reporting duties for elders and dependent adults.

Section 4

Personal hygiene and infection prevention

Provide respectful authorized personal care and reduce the spread of infection.

Section 5

Dementia care and safe community support

Adapt communication and routines for dementia and plan safe transport when it is part of the service.

How the annual course works

Study each lesson, complete the guided activity and submit your reflection and quiz. Complete the final assessment. Your employer reviews the activities, population-specific instruction and actual hours before Excellent Caretakers issues a certificate. The study text alone does not establish five hours.

Progress is separated by employment year once administration records your hire date. Until then, you can use practice mode; practice work does not automatically become a certified employment-year record.

Reference resources and course guidance

Course version 2026.1 · Reviewed September 8, 2026. Use the relevant resource during each guided section. Clinical and equipment skills require assignment-specific training.

Dementia is included in this course now and is expressly required in annual training from January 1, 2027. Transportation instruction must match the services actually provided.