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Communicate biological, psychosocial, cognitive, and spiritual influences on healthy ageing and implications for professional practice.
Discuss the legal and ethical aspects of care for older people from diverse backgrounds demonstrating cultural responsiveness, advocacy, and support during life transitions.
Outline the contemporary Australian healthcare system, funding models, practice standards, and future directions, including implications from the Royal Commission into Quality and Safety in Aged Care.
Evaluate evidence-based approaches to support older people and family caregivers to navigate the continuum of healthcare recognising the multidisciplinary requirements of gerontology.
Critique practice and policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and implications for aged care preparedness for future infection outbreaks.
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This unit will comprise of six modules delivered over 12 weeks teaching period:
• Biological theories of ageing; psychosocial, cognitive, and spiritual aspects of ageing; and holistic perspectives of healthy ageing to emphasise strengths, resilience, capabilities; disease prevention, and minimisation of disability (delivered weeks 1-2).
• Diversity and transitions in older age including cultural and linguistic diversity, sexuality, gender diversity, elder abuse, grand-parenting, retirement, widowhood, moving to supported living (delivered weeks 3-4).
• Legal and ethical aspects of older person’s health care, including health disparities and impaired decision-making capacity (delivered weeks 5-6).
• The healthcare system (primary care, acute care, residential aged care, home-based community care; funding; practice standards; fragmentation) (delivered weeks 8-9).
• Partnering with older people and family caregivers to navigate the continuum of care: health literacy; transitional care; rehabilitation (delivered weeks 10-11).
• Implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for older people living in the community and aged care facilities, informing aged care policy and practice in regard to infection control, end of life care, and future preparedness (delivered weeks 12-13).