Empowering Working Methods in Supporting Agency (5cr)
Course unit code: SG10013
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
- Responsible person
- Piia Kauhanen, Vastuuopettaja
- Anu Ihanus, Vastuuopettaja
Objective
- You are able to work according to the principles of proactive and preventive elderly care and adopt a rehabilitative approach to your work.
- You are able to promote the health, well-being, and agency of older adults through your actions.
- You are able to seek person-centered, sustainable, and well-founded solutions in client work while respecting the self-determination of older individuals.
- You are able to use sociocultural, functional, and empowering methods and strengthen community spirit as part of care, treatment, and rehabilitation.
- You are able to apply goal-oriented individual and group guidance methods.
Content
- Creative, activity-based, and nature-based methods
- Principles and methods of individual and group guidance
- Methods of sociocultural elderly care
- Supporting the agency of people with memory disorders