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Teaching code

4S007284

Credits

1

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

MED/48 - NURSING IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND REHABILITATION

Period

1 SEMESTRE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE dal Oct 1, 2021 al Dec 23, 2021.

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Learning outcomes

Understand and plan a physiotherapeutic intervention in the geriatric field in a multi-professional team
- Learn the tools for evaluating the gait and the risk of falling into the elderly
- Evaluate the elderly with dementia, plan and perform a specific physiotherapeutic treatment
- Knowing the skills to propose therapeutic exercise in the elderly patient and with dementia
- Assess dysphagia and plan a specific physiotherapeutic treatment, also identifying
compensatory interventions to be proposed to the assistance team
- Plan and perform a physiotherapy treatment in elderly patients with a femoral fracture
- Know the risks and problems related to immobilization syndrome and know the
tools to prevent it
- Understand the meaning of the containment, know the modalities of application or not
application, plan and share the operational choice within the team.
- Know and choose the walking aids

Program

- The physiotherapist in the geriatric field: specificity and characteristics
- Characteristics of team work and skills transversality
- Cognitive decay and dementia: Assessment and proposals for physiotherapy treatment
- Gait and risk of falling: evaluation and physiotherapy treatment
- Assessment of dysphagia, physiotherapy treatment and compensatory interventions
- Immobilization syndrome: assessment and prevention strategies
- Contention: regulatory framework, appropriateness and possible alternative choices
- Gait aids: assessment and choice

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Examination Methods

Writing test (open questions and multiple choise questions)

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