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Promotion of older adults’ functioning and physical exercise (5 cr)

Code: GE00FF66-3001

General information


Enrollment

07.04.2025 - 21.04.2025

Timing

01.08.2025 - 19.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Department of Social Services and Promotion of Functional Ability

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 50

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Elderly Care

Teachers

  • Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
  • Annele Urtamo

Teacher in charge

Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela

Groups

  • GEKV25SM
    Elderly care, part-time studies

Objective

You know the service system for older adults' care in the public, private and third sector.
You can observe older adults' life situations, functioning and living environments at home.
You can carry out an interview based on a structured questionnaire and write a summary of the results.
You know how to assess safety at home.
You can structure and assess your learning experiences.
You know what physical exercise services are provided for older adults.
You familiarise yourself with development projects for older adults' physical exercise.
You visit older adults' exercise and creative work groups.
You are able to support older adults' functioning through exercise.

Content

What is included in the public, private and third sector service system of older adults' care?
How are they organised in specific regions?
What kind of exercise services are there for older adults?
What is the life situation and living and housing conditions of a functionally capable aging person living at home?
Is there a need for safety precautions at home?
How do you prepare for an interview?
How do you write a summary?
How to draw up an assessment on the situation?
How can physical activity counselling and guidance support older adults' functioning?

Evaluation scale

1-5