Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Geriatric Physiotherapy

Geriatric Physiotherapy
3
14045
4
Second semester
op
Physiotherapy in clinical specialties
Optativas de especialización
Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English,

Teaching staff


Professor: Sr. Lluís Marcé lmarce@uic.es

Introduction

In 1984, the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service stated that people with certain disabilities who had been treated with rehabilitation programs outside their usual environment lost some of the improvements they had achieved upon discharge. One of the reasons was that rehabilitation services provided ideal conditions that were subsequently not replicated in the patient's usual environment.

Home rehabilitation has responded to these patient needs through the work of multidisciplinary teams that plan therapeutic objectives based on the patients' health and social needs, to alleviate the effects of the various pathologies with comprehensive treatments focused on the patient and their environment.

Pre-course requirements

None established. 

Objectives

  • Provide comprehensive care to disabled individuals.

  • Provide comprehensive care through functional rehabilitation, health education, and adaptation to the environment.

  • Prevent, promote, maintain, and recover through therapeutic exercises and manual therapy.

  • Inform and educate the patient and family.

  • Achieve the highest degree of patient independence to reintegrate them as much as possible into daily activities.

  • Avoid the risk factor of mobility for frail individuals.

  • Facilitate patient well-being.

  • Facilitate caregiver training.

  • Study and improve architectural barriers, adapt the environment with assistive devices and adaptations.

  • Provide cognitive stimulation.

  • Facilitate feeding.

  • Improve patient-family communication.

  • Improve articulation (language).

  • Learn alternative communication systems.

  • Know how to interpret and administer assessment scales (Barthel, Lawton, Minimental test, dysarthria examination, MECV-V).

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 01 - Have the ability to analyze and synthesize.
  • 02 - The ability to organize and plan.
  • 12 - To be creative.
  • 15 - Demonstrate a concern for quality.
  • 18 - Demonstrate a patient-centered approach by showing respect for the central role of the individual and his/her needs in decision-making.
  • 28.3 - Show respect, appreciation and sensitivity towards the work of others.
  • 30.1 - Teamwork skills.
  • 37.5 - Knowledge of the profession's deontological ethics codes.
  • 43 - Knowledge of physiotherapeutic procedures based on techniques and methods specific to physiotherapy interventions applied to the various disorders of all systems and medical and surgical specialisations, as well as health promotion and disease prevention.
  • 49 - The ability to design a physiotherapy treatment plan.
  • 53 - The capacity to participate within the areas of health promotion and disease prevention.

Syllabus

Home Patient

  • Home Patient Profile

  • Caring for the Caregiver

  • Patient Environment

  • ICT in the Home Environment

Home Physiotherapy

  • Spontaneous Movement and Potentials of the Elderly Person

  • Communication with the Elderly Person

  • Falls (center of gravity, functionality, environment, footwear, prosthesis, etc.)

  • Prevalent Pathologies:

Femur Fracture

Total Knee Replacement

Total Hip Replacement

Stroke

Functional Impotence

  • Scales: Barthel

 

Occupational Therapy

  • Cognitive Stimulation

  • Architectural Barriers and Environmental Adaptation. Integration into the Daily Environment

  • Training and Monitoring in the Use of Adaptations and Technical Aids

  • Scales: Lawton, Mini-Mental Test

 

Home Speech Therapy

  • Communication with the Elderly Person

  • Cognitive stimulation.

  • Scales: dysarthria screening, MECV-V.

Teaching and learning activities

In person



TRAINING ACTIVITY

METHODOLOGY

COMPETENCES

CREDITS ECTS

Theoretical classes

Cooperative learning

Case methodology

Resolution of exercises and problems

01 02 09 12 18 21 28.3 30.1 37.4 39 43 49 53

2,4
Self-study activities

Self-learning

10 15 29.1 37.5

1,2

Independent study of the student

Cooperative learning

43 49

2,4

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person



The course will be assessed by a written test, which will represent 80% of the final grade.

20% of the final grade will be related to an assignment based on an activity guided by the professor.

 

Attendance Policy

The subjects of the Degree in Physiotherapy that present theoretical and practical content have as their main objective the acquisition and development of procedures and technical skills directly related to the practical practice of the profession. This is the reason that determines the structure of these classes, in small groups with the direct and continuous supervision of the professor of the subject. Therefore, attendance at the seminars is considered essential and necessary to ensure the acquisition of these skills. Based on the above, absences may only occur exceptionally if they are due to major causes. In any case, if they exceed 20% of the course load, the student will be required to re-enroll in this subject in the following academic year and will not be able to take the exam in the second sitting. The consequences of non-compliance with these regulations can have very negative effects directly related to the enrollment process (academic overlaps and/or incompatibilities) and to the corresponding timeframe for completing the degree.

Bibliography and resources

Blesedell Crepeau E., Cohn ES, Boyt Schell BA. Terapia Ocupacional de Willard i Spackman, 11  ed. Madrid: Editorial M dica Panamericana, 2011.

Durante P, Pedro  P. Terapia ocupacional en geriatría: principios y Práctica, 3  Edición. Barcelona: Masson, 2010.

Moruno P, Romero D. Actividades de la Vida Diaria. Barcelona: Masson, 2006.

Poloni B. Terapia Ocupacional en Discapacitados Físicos: Teoría y Práctica. Madrid: Médica Panamericana, 2004.

Montagut F, Flotats G, Lucas E. Rehabilitación domiciliaria: principios, indicaciones y programas terapeuticos.

R.J.Love, W.G.Webb, Neurología para los especialistas del habla y del lenguaje, Ed. Paramericana 2001.

J. Peña Casanova, M. Pérez Pamies, Rehabilitación de la afasia y trastornos asociados, Ed. Masson 1995.

F. Cuetos Vega, Evaluación y Rehabilitación de las Afasias, aproximación cognitiva, Ed.Panamericana, 2004.

J.Peña Casanova, Manual de Logopedia, Ed Masson 2002.

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