Care and rehabilitation of elderly people suffering from dementia
| Structure Type: | Module |
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| Code: | KFG11B13 |
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| Level: | Bachelor |
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| Credits: | 9.0 points |
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| Responsible Teacher: | Hietaniemi, Elina |
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| Teacher Team: | Lahti, Marita |
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| Language of Instruction: | Finnish |
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Learning Outcomes
Students will extensively study dementing diseases and their treatment, explore the experiential world of elderly people suffering from dementia and study the challenges in their care and rehabilitation with the help of experiential and research literature. Students will be able to apply this information in the care of elderly people, who suffer from different stages of dementia. They will be introduced to the current service delivery system, gain experience in dementia work and become aware of its development needs and potential.
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