• Ageing process
• Measurement of health and social needs of the elderly (health related quality of life concept and description of measurement tools)
• Knowledge of main geriatric problems:
• Dementia (disease description, organization of care, caregiver burden, support system for caregivers)
• Osteoporosis, falls, injuries (disease description, health promotion, falls prevention)
• Bedsores ( health problem, prevention, standard of care, quality of care assurance)
• Healthy aging and health promotion strategies
• Organization of health and social care for the elderly (cross-national perspective)
• Comprehensive geriatric assessment (screening tests for geriatric problems, standard of geriatric care)

Main teachers

• Katarzyna Szczerbińska (Pologne)

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
33	130	4.5