Study Guide

Objective

- You are able to encounter the older people as vulnerable clients/patients.
- You are able to identify and assess the prerequisites and risks for healthy and functional aging.
- You are able to apply your knowledge of the changes and characteristic of morbidity in ageing.
- You are able to systematically assess the need for immediate care for older people and operate in such situations.
- You are able to respond the needs of older people by planning, implementing and evaluating individual care multi-professionally and in cooperation with the older people and their relatives.
- You are able to implement and evaluate the safe pharmacological treatment for older people.

Content

- Healthy and functional aging.
- The main changes in ageing and characteristics of older people nursing.
- Assessing the need for immediate care of an older people.
- Comprehensive gerontological assessment.
- Supporting the living at home.
- Special features of older people pharmacological treatment.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Further information

Prerequisites for participation:
The practical trainings of the previous semesters must have been successfully completed and approved.
The medical calculations of the previous semesters must have been successfully completed and approved.
The theory studies of Geriatric Nursing must have been started.
Internal Desiases Nursing must be successfully completed and approved.