Contexts and Practices to Support the Elderly

Scholar Year: 2023/2024 - 2S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Marta Patricia Arguello Arguello Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC E OT OT/PL TPL O S Type of classes Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 3,00 Isabel Filipe   2,00 Patricia Arguello   1,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Identify the needs of the family concerning its elderly members.
To know informal support networks (family, neighbours, friends) for the elderly valuing and encouraging them.
Identify lifelong learning environments, especially those for the elderly.
Understand the need to provide formal or informal support to caregivers within the family
Encourage inside the family the links between the various generations of the family and the elderly
Identify leisure, exercise and physical activity activities appropriate to the elderly population
Propose intergenerational socio-cognitive and socio-educational activities for the whole family

Syllabus

Formal and informal care networks: differences, similarities, and complementarity.
Volunteering in support of the elderly and the elderly as volunteers.
Health institutions / organizations supporting the elderly in the Portuguese health system - hospital services, primary health care, integrated care network, palliative care and mental health network.
The specificities of the elderly in interpersonal and care relationships Needing’s of the family and other informal caregivers who support the elderly.
The role and status of informal caregivers.
Specifics on the elderly dependent care (comfort, hygiene and food).
Accompanying the elderly to health services - relationship with health professionals.
Socio-cognitive and socio educational stimulation activities.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

It is proposed an interaction of the students with several programs, projects and contexts of support of the elderly and with different approaches of intervention, that are provided by the technicians and the informal caregivers. The contact and interaction with a diversity of professionals make possible the understanding of the added value of teamwork and the professional role of these technicians to be. It is expected that the knowledge will be constructed articulately by the observation and understanding of the practices, leading the students to a more motivational and contextualized appropriation.

Teaching methodologies

The learning process will include:

1. Each students group read and analyze a text that theoretically frames one of the contexts/practices that will be visited by the students, and present their analysis to the class.
2. A thematic seminar with the participation of professionals and other staff members of the different elderly support contexts and practices.
3. Testimonies of professional staff, caregivers and the elderly, in the context of the classroom.
4. Two compulsory visits to a context of elderly support: one for global knowledge of the institution and to interview the responsible and/or technician of the institution, and another for a participant-observation (students organized in groups of 3)

Attendance system

Students attendance is ruled by a minimum of 75% attendance in the practical classes, unless students with special status (article 24º RFA).

Assement and Attendance registers

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