Care for Elderly People

Code: CMS14657O

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This UC promotes a multifactorial and operational approach to elderly care provision, considering the formal and informal caregiver perspectives. The UC addresses actual models for elderly well-being promotion and, also, violence prevention.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

• Know the models for promoting the well-being of the elderly
• Know the components of the multidimensional assessment of the elderly
• Plan and provide sustained care/interventions in models adapted to the specific needs of the elderly
• Prevent violence against the elderly
• Train and train formal and informal caregivers of the elderly

1. Theories of promoting the well-being of the elderly
2. Elderly-centered care functionality assessment
3. Determinants of Active Aging: health, safety, and social participation
4. Prevention of violence against the elderly
5. Training and qualification of formal and informal caregivers of the elderly

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies aim for students to develop skills of analysis, reflection and planning on the different domains that make up the provision of care for the elderly. Through the exposition, discussion and presentation of cases and testimonies, it is intended to encourage the active participation of students and their constant intervention in the process, leading to the acquisition of knowledge and skills that allow them to understand the social, community and family processes inherent to the provision of care to this population, from the assessment of functionality to active aging and violence prevention. In these teaching methodologies, spaces for individual and group reflection and the use of group work techniques, reading and research oriented to the different themes of the program will be central.
Continuous assessment has two components: an individual work and a group work, corresponding respectively to 50% and 50% of the final grade of the UC.