Curricular Unit:			Code:
Geriatric Rehabilitation			1006RGER
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:
The student, as a future member of an interdisciplinary team, in the Geriatric Rehabilitation curricular unit should: • Acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to develop their profession, with sufficient preparation to attend to the elderly population, starting from a scientific basis acquired in the formative context, stimulating it to perceive the elderly in an integral and holistic way, in an interrelated Intimate between its biological, psychological, social and cultural side in a constant adaptation with the pathologies that it can present. • Prepare the student to deal with the geriatric pathologies that will be of crucial utility to the overall view of the healthy or sick senior citizen. • To prevent and reduce the dependency syndrome by developing knowledge about rehabilitation processes, recognizing the very negative repercussions of the dependency syndrome, not only individually, but also socioeconomically.
Syllabus:
I. Introduction to Gerontology and Geriatrics 1.1. Concepts. 1.2. Aging. Definitions. 1.3. Demography. 1.4. Fragility in the elderly. 1.5. History. 1.6. Morpho-functional changes related to age. II. Gerontological assistance 2.1. Geodemography 2.2. Levels of Assistance. Interdisciplinarity 2.3. Centers for the elderly. 2.4. Gerontological Plan in Portugal 2.6. Legislation III. Institutions, services and legislation on the elderly 3.1. Social services and legislation. 3.2. Right 3.3. Reforms, Helps 3.4. Legislation - Centers IV. Geriatric-gerontological evaluation 4.1. Geronto-geriatric evaluation. 4.2. Quality of care measure 4.3. Geriatric quality measures. V. Intervention programs 5.1. Family 5.2. Caregiver 5.3. Mistreatment 5.4. Physical-psychic aging SAW. Comprehensive gerontological rehabilitation 6.1. Concept of rehabilitation 6.2. Bio-psycho-social rehabilitation
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The knowledge and understanding of the contents on Geriatric Rehabilitation will be developed through the exposition and analysis of the theoretical contents. Individual work (written and oral) will enable the application of theoretical content to be practiced in an open class presented to groups of the elderly.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The knowledge and understanding of the contents on Geriatric Rehabilitation will be developed through the exposition and analysis of the theoretical contents. Individual work (written and oral) will enable the application of theoretical content to be practiced in an open class presented to groups of the elderly. The theoretical and practical evaluation of the curricular unit is done through an individual work (written (weighting of 4) and oral (weighting of 4)), on a case inherent in a geriatric pathology, which will allow the practical application of theoretical contents In an open class presented to groups of elderly people. The continuous evaluation of the curricular unit is made through the active participation in the classes, particularly in the presentation and discussion of individual and group work related to Geriatric rehabilitation. (Weighting 2). The student must obtain a minimum of 10 marks for their approval.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical aspects are evaluated through two written tests. The commitment, the motivation to comprehension and the capacity for practical application of the knowledge are evaluated in the theoretical classes through the analysis of the work of constructing a program of prevention of a disease for the stimulation of the geriatric rehabilitation.
Reading:
1. Comissão Económica das Nações Unidas para a Europa (2017). Relatório de Portugal sobre o Envelhecimento 2. Direção Geral de Saúde (2006). Plano Nacional para a Saúde das Pessoas Idosas. 3. Figueroa Pedrosa m, Principios generales de rehabilitación de enfermedades reumáticas.Manual SER. De las enfermedades reumaticas.3ª ed.PanamericanaSA, 2000 4. Ministério da Saúde (2017). Estratégia Nacional para o Envelhecimento Ativo e Saudável 2017-2025 5. Pace WD . Valoración del paciente en la consulta geriátrica. Modern Geriatrics 1990 6. ParreñoJR, (2001). Rehabilitación en Geriatría.Madrid:edimsa, 1994. 7. Rod R. Seeley, Trent D. Stephens, Philip Tate. (2012). Anatomia & Fisiologia.8ª ed. Lusodidactica. 8. World Health Organization. (2011). First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control. Prevention and control of NCDS: Priorities for investment 9. World Health Organization. (2014). World Health Statistics 2014. WHO Library