Curricular Unit:			Code:
Information Technologies Seniors Service			1006TISI
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	CTSP	Gerontology and Community Intervention	3 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Winter Semester		Portuguese/English	39
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
At the end of this course students should be able to: Identify the barriers to the use of technology by elderly people and define strategies to overcome them. Identify as the most important assistive technologies, their use by the elderly. Identify tht principles of andrology apply to technology training. Identify the technological environment and the daily lives of aged populations (smart cities). Build and apply a survey to identify technology trends and their use by older people. Be aware that with the aging of the population, the new senior paradigm emerges: aging, for which students must develop strategies concomitant with strategies for carrying out judgment / decision-making in the context of ICTs. Finally, students must exercise their potential for communication with different stakeholders.
Syllabus:
1 Barrier to technology use by the elderly Physical limitations Appliance and hardware design and development Digital exclusion Exclusion by knowledge Barriers to learning 2 ICT and quality of life of the elderly (assistive technologies) Assistive Technology Concept Objectives of assistive technology Implementation of assistive technology 3 Andragogy teaching ICTs to the elderly The concept of andragogy The 6 principles explain elderly motivations for studying. Requirements of andragogical learning programs. 4 Smart cities and older people's quality of life Urban efficiency Quality of life Innovative Services Mobility, accessibility and inclusion Smart controls Georeferenced Mobile Applications Local information and real time response 5 Active elderly and use of technologies Construction of a survey and its collection, processing and analysis of data
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The course aims to provide students with the ability to interrogate and identify the impact of IT on the lives of the elderly. IT has a structural and transversal dimension in society and as such in the life of the elderly, where it can be used and applied in the most varied domains. However, they are subject to barriers, which the program lists and for which some answers are being tested. The condition of senility brings with it the regression of some, to which assistive technologies have an answer and the program contemplates. The use of IT in the elderly is a rational act (not intuitive), for this the solution is training and training, andragogy contains the answer to this need. The scope of IT goes beyond individual use and has a collective dimension, its most complete expression being the smart cities, which already today offer a large number of appropriate and old potentialities and which foresee a set of impacting innovations that must be understood. and problematize.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
1. Lectures, to present theoretical frameworks of reference. 2. Participatory classes, with discussion of programmatic topics and examples. 3. Active classes, with practical case studies and case studies. 4. Autonomous work: carrying out an individual practical work. Test: 70% Portfolio of work developed in class: 20% Class participation: 10%
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
As theoretical-practical presentations, by the teacher promote the acquisition of knowledge and understanding. Student presentations, individual or in group, promote communication and application of knowledge and understanding. The practical cases, promote the formulation of judgments / decision making and the communication and application of knowledge and its understanding.
Reading:
Serrão, D. (2010) Tecnologias da informação e exercício da Medicina. Na Academia das Ciências. Pags 165-173. Edição do Autor. Serrão, D. (2010) Aracheobiologia e epigenese. Na Academia das Ciências. Pags187-196. Edição do Autor. Sites: www.sociadgest.pt, www.dgs.pt, www. planacid.pt, www.seg-social.pt Viana de Freitas, et al (2006)- Tratado de geriatria e gerontologia. 2º ed. Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Koogan.