Occupational Therapy for Older PeopleLaajuus (8 ECTS)

Objective

During this course, students reflect on the types of thoughts evoked when dealing with elderly people. Students familiarise themselves with elderly people?s occupational behaviour and its contributory factors. Students are able to plan and carry out occupational therapy processes for elderly people under supervision.

Content

Interaction with elderly people
Life narratives
Models of occupational therapy and basics of clinical reasoning
Evaluation of elderly people's occupational participation
Promoting elderly people's occupational behaviour
Current trends in elderly care and implications to occupational therapy
Occupational therapy in different contexts
Documentation in occupational therapy

Further information

This course includes e-learning course (3 ECTS credits)

This course includes a work placement (2 ECTS credits).

Qualifications
Most of Gerontology and Geriatrics completed
Most of Introduction to the Occupational Therapy Process completed
Therapeutic Relationship
Group work in occupational Therapy