Healthy Ageing Foundations Course | Practitioner Skills For Clients 45+

Healthy Ageing Foundations: Practitioner Skills for Clients 45+

What You'll Gain

From This Course…

This course equips you with the thinking, language, and professional confidence needed to work effectively with adults aged 45+. You’ll gain:

A whole-person practitioner lens for working with ageing clients
Clarity around ageing complexity without needing clinical training
A structured way to think, assess and communicate using the Healthy Ageing Practitioner Framework
Greater confidence in scope, boundaries and referral decisions
Improved client trust, retention and long-term outcomes

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Course Overview

Healthy Ageing Foundations is a self-paced, online foundations course designed for Professionals working with adults aged 45 and over.

Format: 100% online, on-demand
Duration: ~4-5 hours total learning time
Delivery: Short video lessons, practical examples, and reflection prompts
Access: Immediate access on enrolment

The course is designed to deliver immediate professional value while clearly preparing you for progression into the Healthy Ageing Practitioner (HAP) pathway.

This course is ideal for health, fitness, and allied professionals—including personal trainers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and community health providers—who work with the 45+ demographics

Duration 4-5 Hours

Certificate of Completion

What's Inside the Course

Inside this course, you’ll work through six progressive modules designed to build confidence, clarity, and professional judgement when supporting adults aged 45+. Each module builds on the last—starting with mindset and understanding, then introducing structured frameworks, professional boundaries, and practical communication skills you can apply immediately with clients.

Module 1 — Beyond Exercise: The Practitioner Shift

Covers the principles of stroke recovery and the role fitness professionals play in enhancing rehabilitation outcomes.

Module 2 — Understanding Ageing Complexity (45+)

Explores stroke types, brain impacts, recovery challenges, and how targeted interventions can improve outcomes.

Module 3 — The Healthy Ageing Practitioner Framework

Provides strategies for building rapport, understanding needs, and communicating effectively with survivors, including those with cognitive or speech impairments.

Module 4 — Scope, Boundaries & Professional Confidence

Covers key exercises to improve range of motion, flexibility, and function, tailored to individual recovery needs.

Module 5 — Communication & Client Conversations

Focuses on exercises and strategies to restore balance, enhance spatial awareness, and reduce fall risk.

Module 6 — From Foundations to Practitioner

Explains posture, seating adjustments, and safe transitions between sitting, standing, and walking, including wheelchair considerations.

Prerequsites and Certification

Registered through the American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CEUs.
AUSactive affiliation allows Australian professionals to claim CECs.
Complete the course and receive ACE certification.
Submit your ACE certification to AUSactive for credit recognition.
AUSactive verifies completion and awards the applicable CECs.

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course author

Ken and Karen Baldwin are the founders of the Healthy Ageing Institute and long-standing leaders in the fitness, health and professional education space. With decades of combined experience spanning fitness education, equipment, professional development and working directly with adults across the ageing continuum, Ken and Karen are known for bridging the gap between exercise, real-world complexity, and ethical professional practice.

Their work focuses on helping professionals move beyond outdated, one-size-fits-all approaches and develop the confidence, language and frameworks needed to support healthy ageing in a practical, scope-aware way.