2024
Perspectives about Ageing and Life-Span
Name: Perspectives about Ageing and Life-Span
Code: CMS14653O
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Health Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: E-learning
Presentation
To provide students with an interdisciplinary Biopsychossocial understanding of the core aspects of the Aging phenomenon in the process of Human Development throughout the Life Cycle.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. Provide students with an interdisciplinary Biopsychossocial understanding of the core aspects of the phenomena of Human Ageing throughout the Life Span in contemporary societies;
2. Enable students with the main knowledge about the context and process of emergence of Human Development throughout the Life Span as an autonomous scientific field;
3. Characterize the theoretical-methodological development of ageing throughout the life Span;
4. Develop critical thinking and the ability to reflectively analyze the issues of ageing in contemporary societies;
Competences:
1.Understands the main aspects of lifelong development process and its implications for ageing;
2. It identifies, enumerates and critically analyzes the problems of aging from a life cycle perspective through case studies.
2. Enable students with the main knowledge about the context and process of emergence of Human Development throughout the Life Span as an autonomous scientific field;
3. Characterize the theoretical-methodological development of ageing throughout the life Span;
4. Develop critical thinking and the ability to reflectively analyze the issues of ageing in contemporary societies;
Competences:
1.Understands the main aspects of lifelong development process and its implications for ageing;
2. It identifies, enumerates and critically analyzes the problems of aging from a life cycle perspective through case studies.
Contents
1: Aging and lifespan - Introduction
1.2. - Intra-individual variability in Aging
1.3. Biopsychophysiological aging and neuroplasticity
2: Cognition, Behavior and Aging in the Life Cycle
2.1.- Neuroplasticity and cognition
2.2.- Structure and Process in Cognitive Development
2.3.- Intelligence, Memory and Executive Functions
2.4.- Creativity and preservation
3: Social relationships, Emotion and Aging in the Life Cycle
3.1.- Dynamic Integration of Emotion and Cognition
3.2.- Temperament and Personality
3.3.- Identity and Social Relations
4. Meaning of Life, aging and lifespan
1.2. - Intra-individual variability in Aging
1.3. Biopsychophysiological aging and neuroplasticity
2: Cognition, Behavior and Aging in the Life Cycle
2.1.- Neuroplasticity and cognition
2.2.- Structure and Process in Cognitive Development
2.3.- Intelligence, Memory and Executive Functions
2.4.- Creativity and preservation
3: Social relationships, Emotion and Aging in the Life Cycle
3.1.- Dynamic Integration of Emotion and Cognition
3.2.- Temperament and Personality
3.3.- Identity and Social Relations
4. Meaning of Life, aging and lifespan
Teaching Methods
Presentation (the theoretical-practical (TP)), classroom-based, and can eventually be applied sessions via platform moodle-uevora. training and simulation of case studies on paper and pencil and computer support; Individual and Grupal Tutorial Support (OT) to the development of a research paper about one of the contents syllabus; Preparation of two works of synthesis based on all the skills developed in the form of portfolio that contributes to (50%+50%) of the final grade.
Teaching Staff
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