Overview

The Gerontological Healthcare major is designed to reach the healthcare professional who wishes to develop specialist skills in the care of older adults and expand their career pathway in a range of health care settings. The major will aim to develop excellence in contemporary older person’s healthcare care to meet … For more content click the Read More button below.

Contacts

Academic Chair

Admission requirements

English language requirements

Learning outcomes

1.

Define a body of knowledge that includes recent and contemporary developments in Gerontological Health care

2.

Appraise all available information to make timely, person-centred, evidence based decisions to achieve agreed health goals for older persons.

3.

Demonstrate effective communication skills and technical research skills to evaluate and synthesise complex information to specialist and non-specialist stakeholders

4.

Display safe, caring, respectful, responsive, and therapeutic relationships with older people during health and illness across a range of healthcare contexts.

5.

Demonstrate the capability to operate with a high degree of personal autonomy and accountability

6.

Design, implement, and appraise health care for older people that ensures quality, safety, and cultural responsiveness.

7.

Adapt to working in complex health environments whilst always acting within appropriate professional, ethical, and legal frameworks.

8.

Create effective and collaborative interdisciplinary relationships to facilitate implementation of holistic safe health care.