Table 1.
Week 1: Physiology of Aging. |
Week 2: Comprehensive Care Focused on Older Adults. |
Week 3: Caring for the Older Adult | Week 4: Quality of Care | Week 5: Integration |
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Theoretical Modules or Topics or Activities | 1.1 Theories of aging | 2.1 Healthy Aging | 3.1 Psychological and spiritual care | 4.1 General standards of care for the patient. | |
1.2 Physiology of aging by apparatus and systems and its impact on the functionality | 2.2 Integrated Care of Older People-ICOPE | 3.2 Support networks | 4.2 Assessment of the intra- and extra-domiciliary environment. | ||
1.3 Types of aging: usual, satisfactory, and pathological | 2.3 Medical care | 3.3 Psychological and behavioral symptoms in older adults | 4.3 Acute and chronic institutionalization. | ||
1.4 Quality of life | 2.4 Nutritional care | ||||
2.5 Dental care | |||||
Practical Modules | 1.1 Genetic programming | 2.1 Comprehensive geriatric assessment | 3.1 Depression and anxiety. | 4.1 Usefulness of the interdisciplinary approach to improve early diagnosis and treatment of pathologies associated with loss of independence. | 5.1 Simulated scenario using role-play dynamic |
1.2 Telomere shortening | 2.2 Assessment to Intrinsic Capacity by Integrated Care to Older People | 3.2 Dementia. | 4.2 Methodology for the design of care guidelines that allow the adequate management of the geriatric patient in different care settings. | ||
1.3 Oxidative stress and free radicals | 2.3 Identification of heterogeneity in the older adult population (healthy, frail and geriatric patient). | 3.3 Caregiver overload | |||
1.4 Endocrine theory | |||||
Challenge | 1.1 Relationship between the quality of life and health | 2.1 Brainstorming of innovative proposals | 3.1 Design of the implementation plan (with an established format, recorded in a checklist). | 3.2 Integrative project design and implementation plan. | 5.1 Presentation of the proposal to internal and external evaluators. |
1.2 Determinants of an adequate quality of life and factors that deteriorate it. | 2.2 Selection of the setting in which to develop the project (institution, home, association, community, day center, clinic) | 4.1 Report integration. | |||
1.3 Quality of life as a goal for healthy living in older people. | 2.3 Description of indicators (baseline, intermediate and final) to demonstrate the impact of your project on health | ||||
1.4 The bio-psycho-social approach to health from the perspective of Intrinsic ability to achieve an adequate quality of life | |||||
1.5 Situational diagnosis in your community | |||||
1.6 Development of the theoretical framework | |||||
1.7 Establish the project’s objective |