Special Issues Related to Aging and Getting Old (5cr)

Objective

Having completed the course the studentcan assess an aged person’s nutritional statecan give health promoting guidance in nutrition to improve its stateface people in the late phase of life and their close onessupport the patient in the final phase of the illness and when death approachesknows the patient’s rights and respects the patient’s and the close ones’ choicescan plan, develop and implement old people’s terminal carecan ponder and analyze his/her thoughts about deathknows factors influencing an aged person’s sexual health and concepts of sexualitycan promote good sexual health

Content

Having completed the course the studentcan assess an aged person’s nutritional statecan give health promoting guidance in nutrition to improve its stateface people in the late phase of life and their close onessupport the patient in the final phase of the illness and when death approachesknows the patient’s rights and respects the patient’s and the close ones’ choicescan plan, develop and implement old people’s terminal carecan ponder and analyze his/her thoughts about deathknows factors influencing an aged person’s sexual health and concepts of sexualitycan promote good sexual health Aged people’s nutrition: Nutrients and nutrition physiology. Terminal care: Special features of terminal care. Ethical and practical preparedness and realization of terminal care at home and in different service institutions. Encountering an elderly person’s death and the mourning process. Supporting the close ones. End of care relationship and the career’s coping. Aged people’s sexual health: Concepts of sexuality, sexual rights and the importance of sexuality, factors affecting an aging person’s sexuality, supporting an aging person’s sexual health.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Kiitettävä (5), hyvä (4-3), tyydyttävä (2-1); hylätty tai hyväksytty (S); hylätty