This curriculum guide provides materials for a five-unit home health aide course. Each unit contains 4 to 36 lesson plans. Unit topics and representative lesson plan topics are as follows: (1) introduction (ethical and legal responsibilities, time management, reporting and recording); (2) communication (techniques, meeting the public, therapeutic communication with the patient); (3) homemaking services essential to health care needs (accident prevention, disaster guidelines, resource management, home laundry, general housekeeping); (4) nutrition (basic food groups and food buying, preparation, and storage); and (5) personal care skills (oral hygiene; baths; grooming; dressing; measuring temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure; bandaging; exercise needs; and physically assisting the patient). Each lesson plan contains some or all of the following components: scope of unit; lesson objectives; supplementary teaching/learning items; student informational assignment; references (instructor's additional information); introduction; outline of key points; interaction items (review questions); classroom, laboratory, shop, or other activities; evaluation items; answers to evaluation items; and handouts. Diagrams of systems of the human body are appended. (YLB)