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Special issues related to aging and getting old (5 cr)

Code: GE00CO55-3003

General information


Enrollment

08.11.2021 - 21.11.2021

Timing

01.01.2022 - 31.05.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

40 - 50

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Elderly Care

Teachers

  • Mari Partanen
  • Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela

Teacher in charge

Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela

Groups

  • GEKV19SM
    Elderly 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?

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

No prerequisities