Pshycogeriatric Rehabilitation
A.Y. 2024/2025
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 can be attended as a single course.
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:
Mele Francesco, Zago Stefano
Psichiatria
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Professors:
Cavallotti Simone, Olivani Francesca
Professor(s)