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Learning outcomes
Differentiate between illness trajectories for older people with chronic progressive disease and implications for older persons’ physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs
Classify the components of a comprehensive assessment of the older person
Generate a multi-disciplinary care plan for the frail older person, addressing specific areas of risk, including falls, pressure injury, malnutrition.
Recommend evidence-based approaches to respond to deterioration in older persons experiencing symptom exacerbation and functional decline
Plan a palliative approach to the multi-disciplinary care of an older person in the last 12 months of life.
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The unit will comprise of the following 6 modules to be delivered over 12 teaching weeks:
• Illness trajectories in chronic progressive disease including frailty, underlying pathologies, and comprehensive assessment of the older person (delivered weeks 1-2)
• Multidisciplinary care planning for older persons in deteriorating health. (delivered weeks 3-4)
• Current approaches to the support of the frail older person and prevention of specific areas of risk including falls, pressure injury, malnutrition. (delivered weeks 5-6)
• Stages of the dying process, identification of the dying person, and management of terminal symptoms (delivered weeks 8-9)
• Principles of palliative care, applying a palliative approach, advanced care planning, voluntary assisted dying (delivered 10-11)
• Communication strategies in end of life care for older people, and multidisciplinary support of bereaved family caregivers. (delivered weeks 12-13)