Study Guide

Objective

You can assess the nutritional status of older adults.
You know how to give health-promoting guidance for nutrition.
You know how to face people and their loved ones at the end of life.
You can support patients at the terminal stage of illnesses and at approaching death.
You know patients' rights and know how to respect the choices of patients and their loved ones.
You can plan, implement and develop palliative and terminal care for older adults.
You know factors affecting sexual health in aging.
You know how to promote sexual health in aging.

Content

What are nutrients and nutritional physiology?
How does aging affect nutrition?
What are the special features of palliative and terminal care?
What are the ethical and practical capabilities and the implementation of palliative and terminal care at home and in different service institutions?
How to encounter older persons' death, and what is the process of grief?
How to support families?
What is the termination of care relationships like and how to support caregivers' coping?
What are the concepts connected to sexual health and sexual rights, and what is the meaning of sexuality?
What is sexual diversity?
What factors affect sexual health in aging?
How to promote sexual health in aging?