LF:MNGE091 Gerontology - Course Information

MNGE091 Gerontology

Extent and Intensity

1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. MUDr. Hana Matějovská Kubešová, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Hana Matějovská Kubešová, CSc.
Department of General Internal Medicine – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MVDr. Halina Matějová
Supplier department: Department of General Internal Medicine – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine

Timetable

Wed 14. 11. to Fri 21. 12. Wed 12:00–13:40 B22/116 aula

Prerequisites (in Czech)

MNKV0822p Community Nutrition and h.c.II

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Nutrition therapist for child nutrition and Nutrition therapist for adult nutrition (programme LF, N-SZ)

Course objectives

The main aim is to offer students an overwiev of diferences between seniors and younger patients, especially in diseases diagnostics, specificities of objective findings, laboratory parameters and treatment targets as well.

Syllabus

• a) specificity of disease symtpoms in elderly, diagnostic approach, complex geriatric assessment
• b) different disease course in elderly, complications, chronicity
• c) imobilization, complication cascade
• d) necessarity of emergent approach to elderly to accelerate the healing proces and to keep the independency od the elderly
• e) giants of geriatrics, multidisciplinary approach
• f) social context of diseases in elderly
• g) the influence of senzoric, cognitive and motoric deterioration on the independence and abiolita to live in own environment
• h) geriatric maldaptation syndrom
• i) sleeping disorders in elderly, behavioral disorders in elderly
• j) psychical disturbances in elderly

Literature

• MATĚJOVSKÁ KUBEŠOVÁ, Hana, Pavel WEBER, Pavel ŠEVČÍK, Michal MAŠEK, Zdeněk KADAŇKA, Blanka VEPŘEKOVÁ, Vlasta POLCAROVÁ, Roman GÁL, Dagmar SEIDLOVÁ and Helena ONDRÁŠKOVÁ. Akutní stavy v geriatrii (Emergencies in geriatrics). 1st ed. Praha: Galén, 2009, 233 pp. akutní medicína, geriatrie. ISBN 978-80-7262-620-5. info
• TOPINKOVÁ, Eva. Geriatrie pro praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2005, 270 s. ISBN 8072623656. info
• KALVACH, Zdeněk. Geriatrie a gerontologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2004, 861 s. ISBN 8024705486. info

Teaching methods

lectures, discussions, case reports, practice

Assessment methods

oral examination

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2012, recent)
  
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