Curricular Unit:Code:
Informal Caregivers1006CINF
Year:Level:Course:Credits:
1CTSPGerontology and Community Intervention4 ects
Learning Period:Language of Instruction:Total Hours:
Winter SemesterPortuguese/English52
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
Provide students with knowledge about the action of informal caregivers, burden and difficulties they have in caring and as coaches help find ways to overcome them by facilitating interaction between informal caregivers and the (formal) health care team.
Contribute to the quality of life of individuals and families in situations of loss of autonomy, dependence or social vulnerability.
Promote access to protection and social action by directing informal caregivers and dependent older people to existing community resources
Syllabus:
Take care: Humanized care; Caring with humanity
Informal caregivers (IC): Definition, motivation, requirements to care, role and characteristics of ICs in Portugal; Legal framework, rights and duties; Lay beliefs of disease vs. scientific knowledge; Training and intervention needs of informal caregivers
Concepts of Autonomy and dependence; Scales to assess functional dependence; Overload and well-being of informal caregivers
Communication between the elderly and informal caregivers: Basics of communication; Constructive conflict management
The role of associations: Informal care network; Health care delivery network; National network of integrated continuing care-household; Integrated long-term care teams; Residential structures for seniors
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
It is intended with the contents selected, to enable students to understand the problem of informal caregivers, the importance of their role, rights and duties, potentialities, needs and difficulties. The student should also be aware of the social supports available to the elderly who need them. The institutions provide different types of care for the elderly, both in the home and in the home. With the programmatic content stipulated for this Unit, students are expected to have the necessary tools to intervene in supporting the elderly and their caregivers, enhancing the skills of informal caregivers and establishing effective communication with formal caregivers.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The teaching and learning methodologies will be adapted to the themes to be taught and according to the intervention of the students. Generally, the teaching methods will be directive (expository and demonstrative) and semi-directional (interrogative).
The performance and presentation in the classroom of group work will be a methodology to be used for the study of some of the themes. It is also envisaged the exhibition of excerpts from films about the he exhibition of excerpts from films on the theme of aging, dependence and disability, training and overloading of informal caregivers.
The evaluation will consist of an individual written test (80% of the final grade), and a individual work, presented in a classroom context (20% of the final grade). The student will be approved to the discipline with the minimum classification of 10 values in the set of the two moments of evaluation.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The strategies to be selected with the aim of encouraging learning are consistent with the curriculum guidelines, appropriate to the objectives and the learning to be carried out, and varied in order to adapt to the different learning styles of the students. Having the student as the center of the process and actor of his learning, strategies are proposed that promote the exchange of opinions between the students and the teacher, the reflection on the themes, the expression and debate of ideas, individual and group research as well as training for the presentation of intervention projects in the community
Reading:
Cunha, P, Leitão, S. (2011). Manual de gestão construtiva de conflitos. Porto: Edições UFP; Departamento de Prestações e Contribuições (2021)Guia prático: estatuto do cuidador informal principal e do cuidador informal não principal. Lisboa: Instituto da Segurança Social, IP
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Lima, A., Ferreira, M., Martins, M. (s/d). Mergulhar no conceito de autonomia
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Paúl, C, Fonseca, A. (2005). Envelhecer em Portugal. Lisboa: Climepsi
Sequeira, C. (2018). Cuidar dos idosos com dependência física ou mental. Lisboa: Lidel
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