Pshycogeriatric Rehabilitation
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
-to acquire the ability to recognize the main changes in behavior and subjective experiences in the geriatric age and the main psychopathological disorders in the elderly;
-to improve the knowledge of the main conditions of mental disorder and acquire the ability to adopt targeted interventions, from a healing and rehabilitative point of view;
- to acquire the ability to establish and maintain supportive relationship with the patient and with his / her family members, adopting the main principles of relational dynamics;
-to study the specific rehabilitation techniques for the geriatric age;
- to acquire the ability to collaborate in the planning and improvement of rehabilitative interventions, adopting targeted methods in elderly's support.
-to improve the knowledge of the main conditions of mental disorder and acquire the ability to adopt targeted interventions, from a healing and rehabilitative point of view;
- to acquire the ability to establish and maintain supportive relationship with the patient and with his / her family members, adopting the main principles of relational dynamics;
-to study the specific rehabilitation techniques for the geriatric age;
- to acquire the ability to collaborate in the planning and improvement of rehabilitative interventions, adopting targeted methods in elderly's support.
Expected learning outcomes
-to learn how to recognize mental disorder in the elderly and learn how to guide rehabilitative interventions, in order to set proper treatments;
-to acquire the ability to establish correct relationship with caregivers; to know how to adopt rehabilitation techniques in geriatrics.
-to acquire the ability to establish correct relationship with caregivers; to know how to adopt rehabilitation techniques in geriatrics.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge is required
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written and oral test
Psichiatria
Course syllabus
- Senile depression
- Risk factors for senile depression
- Psychological well-being in the elderly
- Successful aging
- Differential diagnosis
- Comorbidities
PSYCHOGERIATRIC REHABILITATION
- presentation of the concept of rehabilitation in the elderly starting from the bio-psycho-social model
- historical notes and epidemiological dimension of the problem
- explanation of the concept of frailty and clinical hints regarding depression in the elderly
- types of rehabilitation intervention for the depressed elderly subject (psychological approach, psychomotricity, psycho-sensory stimulation, art therapy, etc.)
- prognostic aspects and limits of the rehabilitation intervention in elderly depressed subjects
- presentation of some clinical cases
- conclusions and future developments
- Risk factors for senile depression
- Psychological well-being in the elderly
- Successful aging
- Differential diagnosis
- Comorbidities
PSYCHOGERIATRIC REHABILITATION
- presentation of the concept of rehabilitation in the elderly starting from the bio-psycho-social model
- historical notes and epidemiological dimension of the problem
- explanation of the concept of frailty and clinical hints regarding depression in the elderly
- types of rehabilitation intervention for the depressed elderly subject (psychological approach, psychomotricity, psycho-sensory stimulation, art therapy, etc.)
- prognostic aspects and limits of the rehabilitation intervention in elderly depressed subjects
- presentation of some clinical cases
- conclusions and future developments
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
slides, handouts
Neurologia
Course syllabus
Aging and nervous system
- Cognitive reserve and frailty
- Basic and instrumental activities of daily life
- Delirium and dementias
- Psychological and behavioral disorders of dementias
- Caregivers
- Estimation and measurement of deficits and response to treatment
- Non-pharmacological treatment of cognitive, psychological and behavioral disorders
- Aging between genetics and environment
- The concept of aging according to the discipline of reference (biology, psychology, sociology)
- The geriatric classification of old age
- The old age index, epidemiological data on ageing
- Macroscopic anatomical-structural and metabolic fluxometric modifications in the senile brain
- Microscopic neuropathological changes in the senile brain
- The concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- The concept of cognitive reserve
- The 'Nun Study'
- Mechanisms of neuronal plasticity (redundancy, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis)
- Cognitive stimulation and the concept of cognitive well-being
- Types of non-pharmacological cognitive-behavioral interventions (memory training, 3-R, ROT, Validation Therapy, behavioral interventions, environmental interventions)
- Cognitive reserve and frailty
- Basic and instrumental activities of daily life
- Delirium and dementias
- Psychological and behavioral disorders of dementias
- Caregivers
- Estimation and measurement of deficits and response to treatment
- Non-pharmacological treatment of cognitive, psychological and behavioral disorders
- Aging between genetics and environment
- The concept of aging according to the discipline of reference (biology, psychology, sociology)
- The geriatric classification of old age
- The old age index, epidemiological data on ageing
- Macroscopic anatomical-structural and metabolic fluxometric modifications in the senile brain
- Microscopic neuropathological changes in the senile brain
- The concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- The concept of cognitive reserve
- The 'Nun Study'
- Mechanisms of neuronal plasticity (redundancy, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis)
- Cognitive stimulation and the concept of cognitive well-being
- Types of non-pharmacological cognitive-behavioral interventions (memory training, 3-R, ROT, Validation Therapy, behavioral interventions, environmental interventions)
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
slides, handouts
Neurologia
MED/26 - NEUROLOGY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Professors:
Pomati Simone, Zago Stefano
Psichiatria
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Professors:
Cavallotti Simone, Olivani Francesca
Professor(s)