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Empowering Working Methods in Supporting Agency (5cr)

Code: SG10013-3001

General information


Enrollment
01.10.2022 - 31.10.2022
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
13.02.2023 - 28.05.2023
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
Local portion
5 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Unit
Geronomikoulutus (SG)
Campus
Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
15 - 40
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Applied Gerontology
Teachers
Katri Palpatzis
Piia Kauhanen
Anu Ihanus
Teacher in charge
Piia Kauhanen
Groups
SGAK22
Degree Programme in Applied Gerontology, Blended Learning, Spring, 2022
Course
SG10013

Evaluation scale

H-5

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

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