Students will learn the central principles and methods associated with preventive and rehabilitative elderly care to promote the patients' functional capacity and welfare and to prevent premature need for services or institutional care. In their work with clients and families, students will learn to assess elderly people's need for physiotherapy services.Students will also learn to support the autonomy and independent coping of elderly people living at home and especially acquire the ability to help family care-givers to cope and maintain their functional capacity.