This course at Care for Older People: Comprehensive Care for the Elderly – Professional Caregiver offers a specialised training in geriatrics, a field that is becoming increasingly important due to the growth in the elderly population. The aim of the course is to improve the quality of life of older people, both in its home as in the community, having regard to the patient’s age, his functional capacity and the family and community structure in which it is integrated.
Sector-specific
Nursing
60 hours
Care for the elderly: Comprehensive care for older people – Professional carer
Nursing
60 hours
Introduction
Objectives
- To reduce morbidity and mortality amongst older people and maintain good functional capacity, recognising this as an indicator of well-being and health and as the indicator with the greatest predictive value regarding the need for care.
-To make it as easy as possible for people to grow old in their own homes or in an environment in which they feel most comfortable, with an emphasis on promoting rehabilitation programmes covering all those aspects that minimise, as far as possible, the physical, mental or sensory limitations in older people that lead to their dependence.
Table of Contents
MODULE 1. OLD AGE
TEACHING UNIT 1. DEFINING THE CONCEPT OF OLD AGE
TEACHING UNIT 2. CHARACTERISTIC PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AGEING
TEACHING UNIT 3. PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN OLD AGE
TEACHING UNIT 4. RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY
MODULE 2. ASSESSMENT OF THE ELDERLY
TEACHING UNIT 5. THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN OLDER PEOPLE
TEACHING UNIT 6. MEDICAL RECORD
TEACHING UNIT 7. FUNCTIONAL, SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT
MODULE 3. THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN OLD AGE
TEACHING UNIT 8. BASIC PHYSICAL ABILITIES AND HOW TO TRAIN THEM
TEACHING UNIT 9. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN AGEING
TEACHING UNIT 10. INTRODUCTION TO GERIATRIC EXERCISE
MODULE 4. REHABILITATION FOR OLDER PEOPLE
TEACHING UNIT 11. STUDY OF THE MUSCLES
TEACHING UNIT 12. FUNDAMENTALS OF REHABILITATION
TEACHING UNIT 13. REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES I
TEACHING UNIT 14. REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES II
TEACHING UNIT 15. MAIN CONDITIONS SUITABLE FOR REHABILITATION
MODULE 5. CONDITIONS REQUIRING REHABILITATION TREATMENT
TEACHING UNIT 16. MOTOR DISORDERS
TEACHING UNIT 17. DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
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