Chronic Disease Management and End of Life Care
PostgraduateMUR-SHP5042025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 15 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,160
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Chronic Disease Management and End of Life Care
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject you should be able to:
- Differentiate between illness trajectories for older people with chronic progressive disease and implications for older persons’ physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs
- Classify the components of a comprehensive assessment of the older person
- Generate a multi-disciplinary care plan for the frail older person, addressing specific areas of risk, including falls, pressure injury, malnutrition.
- Recommend evidence-based approaches to respond to deterioration in older persons experiencing symptom exacerbation and functional decline
- Plan a palliative approach to the multi-disciplinary care of an older person in the last 12 months of life.
- Illness trajectories in chronic progressive disease including frailty, underlying pathologies, and comprehensive assessment of the older person.
- Multidisciplinary care planning for older persons in deteriorating health.
- Current approaches to the support of the frail older person and prevention of specific areas of risk including falls, pressure injury, malnutrition.
- Stages of the dying process, identification of the dying person, and management of terminal symptoms.
- Principles of palliative care, applying a palliative approach, advanced care planning, voluntary assisted dying.
- Communication strategies in end of life care for older people, and multidisciplinary support of bereaved family caregivers.
This unit is designed to foster knowledge and understanding of the concepts and practices of multidisciplinary healthcare for older adults with chronic progressive disease, and the application of palliative care principles at end of life. Participants will develop an understanding of comprehensive assessment of the older person, symptom management, advanced care planning, communication at end of life, and bereavement support.
- Questionnaire (30%)
- Discussion Forum (30%)
- Case study report (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- MUR-GHC-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Gerontological Healthcare
Others
Enrolment in a Graduate degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Gerontological Healthcare
PostgraduateMUR-GHC-GCE