2024
Gerontopharmacology
Name: Gerontopharmacology
Code: CMS13761I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Ciências Farmacêuticas
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC aims to provide the student with knowledge to recognize aging and the elderly as an object of study, and to identify changes, both at a physiological and functional level, as well as in the consequent response to medicines, at the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic level, that they present.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The student must:
1. Recognize aging and the elderly as a reality installed socially and as an object of study increasingly developed;
2. Understand the different dimensions and theories of aging as basic elements of the study of the age group and social phenomenon;
3. Understand and develop the multidimensional approach to aging and the elderly, complementing it with the need for global geriatric assessment;
4. Identify and analyze the main changes related to aging, both at the physiological and functional level, as well as in the consequent response to drugs, at the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic level;
5. Identify, evaluate and promote the improvement of aspects directly related to the increased number of years of life, comorbidities and daily drugs consumption, namely: correct use of medication, polypharmacy, adherence and medication management.
1. Recognize aging and the elderly as a reality installed socially and as an object of study increasingly developed;
2. Understand the different dimensions and theories of aging as basic elements of the study of the age group and social phenomenon;
3. Understand and develop the multidimensional approach to aging and the elderly, complementing it with the need for global geriatric assessment;
4. Identify and analyze the main changes related to aging, both at the physiological and functional level, as well as in the consequent response to drugs, at the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic level;
5. Identify, evaluate and promote the improvement of aspects directly related to the increased number of years of life, comorbidities and daily drugs consumption, namely: correct use of medication, polypharmacy, adherence and medication management.
Contents
1. Aging: new object of study;
2. Multidimensional approach to aging and the elderly;
3. Main changes related to aging: physiological and functional;
4. Global geriatric assessment;
5. Care approaches: care pathway and patient centered care;
6. Pharmacotherapy in elderly patients: quality of medication use, polypharmacy, complexity, potentially inappropriate medication, medication adherence and management;
7. Pharmacological aspects related to aging: cardiovascular, respiratory, genitourinary, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nutritional, central nervous system, sensory, musculoskeletal, hematological and immunological.
2. Multidimensional approach to aging and the elderly;
3. Main changes related to aging: physiological and functional;
4. Global geriatric assessment;
5. Care approaches: care pathway and patient centered care;
6. Pharmacotherapy in elderly patients: quality of medication use, polypharmacy, complexity, potentially inappropriate medication, medication adherence and management;
7. Pharmacological aspects related to aging: cardiovascular, respiratory, genitourinary, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nutritional, central nervous system, sensory, musculoskeletal, hematological and immunological.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical teaching will be essentially expository. Indirect (constructivist) teaching will also be developed, both in theoretical classes and in theoretical-practical classes. The TP sessions will be integrated according to the contents taught in the T, with students who, based on theory, develop a critical analysis of scientific articles and resolution of practical cases.
The evaluation will be divided into two stages:
1. Continuous assessment:
- Theoretical (60%), theoretical test at the end of the semester;
- Theoretical-practical (40%), group work.
For approval, the student must obtain a weighted average of 9.5 or more.
2. Evaluation by final exam (100%).
For approval, the student must obtain a rating equal to or greater than 9.5 values.
The evaluation will be divided into two stages:
1. Continuous assessment:
- Theoretical (60%), theoretical test at the end of the semester;
- Theoretical-practical (40%), group work.
For approval, the student must obtain a weighted average of 9.5 or more.
2. Evaluation by final exam (100%).
For approval, the student must obtain a rating equal to or greater than 9.5 values.
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