Care and rehabilitation of elderly people suffering from dementia

Structure Type: Module
Code: KFG11B13
Level: Bachelor
Credits: 9.0 points
Responsible Teacher: Hietaniemi, Elina
Teacher Team: Lahti, Marita
Language of Instruction: Finnish

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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