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513-404 Gerontology | |
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Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof G Webb & Ms K Gould |
Semester | Year long (view timetable) |
Contact | Equivalent of 60 hours throughout fourth year, 24 hours lectures and tutorials and self-directed learning, four weeks (28 hours per week) clinical placement |
Subject Description | Students should comprehend the implications of an aging population on health delivery and the community: changes occurring in normal aging, pathologies associated with aging; heterogeneity of the elderly population; multiple pathologies; multidisciplinary management teams; evaluation of physiotherapy management emphasising assessment and outcome measures; the need to identify advances in gerentology and relate these to practice. Knowledge of the role of physiotherapists and other health team members in management, agencies delivering aged care services and sources of specialised equipment is developed. The tutorial program includes balance and postural control, gait in the elderly, dementia, incontinence, aged care policy, service networks, pain in the elderly and amputees. |
Assessment | Clinic: continuous clinical assessment (60%). Theory: case presentation (15%), written assignment of no more than 2000 words (25%). Students must pass the clinical component in order to pass the subject. |
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