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12 credit points
Admission requirements
Learning outcomes
Define a body of knowledge that includes recent and contemporary developments in Gerontological Health care
Appraise all available information to make timely, person-centred, evidence based decisions to achieve agreed health goals for older persons.
Demonstrate effective communication skills and technical research skills to evaluate and synthesise complex information to specialist and non-specialist stakeholders
Display safe, caring, respectful, responsive, and therapeutic relationships with older people during health and illness across a range of healthcare contexts.
Demonstrate the capability to operate with a high degree of personal autonomy and accountability
Design, implement, and appraise health care for older people that ensures quality, safety, and cultural responsiveness.
Adapt to working in complex health environments whilst always acting within appropriate professional, ethical, and legal frameworks.
Create effective and collaborative interdisciplinary relationships to facilitate implementation of holistic safe health care.