Postgraduate MUR-SHP504-2023
Chronic Disease Management and End of Life Care
$1,965 $2,215
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
15 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 31 Jul 2023
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Subject details
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.
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- 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.
Others
Enrolment in a Graduate degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
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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