Special issues related to aging and getting old (5 cr)
Code: GE00CO55-3001
General information
Enrollment
16.12.2019 - 10.01.2020
Timing
06.01.2020 - 22.05.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Kouvola Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
20 - 40
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Elderly Care
Teachers
- Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
- Anna-Kaarina Anttolainen
- Taina Lehtonen
Teacher in charge
Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
Groups
-
GEKV17SMElderly care, part-time studies
Objective
You know factors affecting sexual health in aging.
You know how to face people at the end of life and their loved ones.
You can support the patient at the end of the illness and the approaching death.
You know the patient's rights and know how to respect the choices of the patient and their loved ones.
You can think and analyze your thoughts about death.
You can plan, implement and develop palliative and terminal care for the elderly.
You know how to promote sexual health in aging.
Content
What are the special features of palliative and terminal care?
What are the ethical and practical capabilities and the implementation of palliative care and hospice at home and in different service institutions?
How to encounter the death of an old person, and what is the process of grief?
How to support families?
What is the termination of a care relationship and coping of a caregiver?
What are concepts connected to sexual health, sexual rights and meaning of sexuality?
What is sexual diversity?
What factors affect sexual health in aging?
How to promote sexual health in aging?
Qualifications
No prerequisities