Elderly People’s Mental Health

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Teaching methodologies take an active character, participatory and dynamic, integrating a combination oftheoretical presentations with practical exposure and analysis of clinical cases, debates, research, and other diversified activities.
Students have to opt for continuous assessment and evaluation for final examination.
Continuous assessment consists of two time points: critical analysis of practical clinical cases (50%) and thecompletion of a written test or individual work (50%).
Evaluation by exam consists of a written test that includes both a theoretical part (50%) and a practical part (50%).

1. Identify deviations to normal psychological ageing within the scope of mental assessment.
2. Identify the preventive aspects of the disease.
3. Know the mental pathologies of the older person as well as its specificities and atypical manifestations
4. Apply strategies to adapt to disease specificities and manifestations (behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia) and functional decline.

1. Evaluation of mental state of the elderly: normal and pathological ageing.
2. Neurocognitive disorders in the elderly: assessment and intervention.
3. Disorders of anxiety in the elderly: assessment and intervention.
4. Mood disorders: specificities and atypical manifestations in the elderly.
5. Sleep disorders: evaluation and pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention.
6. Late-onset psychosis: differential diagnosis and clinical presentations.
7. Legal Aspects:
7.1. Abuse and neglect;
7.2. Decisiveness and testamentary.

• - analysis of practical clinical cases - 50.0%
• - Test - 50.0%

• - Exam - 100.0%

NAO

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