Chronic Disease Management and End of Life Care

• • 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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