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The training and learning area of the Institut de l'Envelliment takes care of the following courses:

SPECIALIZATION COURSE IN PLANNING AND MANAGING OF CARE SERVICES FOR THE ELDERY WITH DEPENDENCE

Presentation
This specializtion course, that corresponds to the module 2 (that can be taken separately) of the master in aging and dependence is centered in the assessment of dependence, planning of integral care services and their managing from all points of view.

Admission requirements
People graduated in disciplines related to the elderly in the different fields of the public administration or service providers.

Modality
on-site

Credits 15 ECTS

Total price 1100 €

Location
Casa Convalescència
Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171
Barcelona

72 hours of teaching, during 4 weeks:

19th and 20th of February
18th, 19th and 20th of March
22nd, 23rd and 24th of April
20th, 21st y 22nd of May
Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays from 9 to 13h and from 15 to 19h, Saturdays from 9 to 13h.

Information and admissions

Eva Julià
Tel: 934335030
E-mail: eva.julia@uab.cat

MASTER IN AGING AND LONG TERM CARE

Presentation
The new master in aging in long term care wishes to offer the skills and knowledge needed in order to design policies and services for the dependent people; assessment of the needs of the elderly and disabled and design of adequate intervention plans, from a global psychosocial point of view bearing in mind the integral vision of the person.

The recent approval of the Law of Dependence in Spain is an opportunity and a challenge for the development of long term care services for the disabled elderly by public and private service provides, as well as public administrations.

Admission requirements
People graduated in disciplines related to the elderly in the different fields of the public administration or service providers.

Modality
on-site

Credits 75 ECTS

Total price 3900 €

Calendar
Start: November 2009
End: December 2011
Places: 35

Location: Casa de Convalescència. Barcelona

Information and admissions

Eva Julià
Tel: 934335030
E-mail: eva.julia@uab.cat

If you wish to make your preinscription, please fill the following form. A brief resume of yourself is welcome too. The inscription will only be considered formalized when the registration fee is payed.

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INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE
(26th-27th June 2008)

Nowadays, the medicine practice requires a constant need of knowledge’s update. A discipline like Geriatrics, that is attending a greater collective every day, is not away from this need and should continue advancing to achieve the corresponding interventional level.

This fourth edition of the International Course in Geriatric Medicine once again brings together professors from the USA and Europe to provide updates based on a review of each of the selected themes, to which they bring their own professional experience.

This course again involves the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Toulouse, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Britain's Luton University.

The course is aimed at geriatric doctors, family doctors, internists and doctors from other specialities where older people are frequently treated.

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CURS BÀSIC D'EPIDEMIOLOGIA I METODOLOGIA CIENTÍFIC EN L'ÀMBIT DE L'ENVELLIMENT
This course is targetes to primary care professionals and also people working in long term care centers who have interest in making research work in their field.
The content of the couse will give basic knowledge which will allow to make a critical reading of scientific literature, ellaborating a writen scientific communication and designing a study

Next edition: 2007

CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY MASTER (2006-2008)
This master, promoted by the Medicine Department, directed by Dr. Miquel Vilardell and with the coordination of the Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona, the Vall d'Hebron Hospital and the Fundació Institut Català de l'Envelliment, has the following objectives:

1.- Achieve an integral vision of the aging phenomenon of people and populations.
2.- Achive an expert level in Exhaustive Geriatric Assessment
3.- Consolidation of the methodology of team work and coordinated care.
4.- Achieve a wide knowledge of the physiopathology of aging and of diagnostic, prevention and treatment of the main diseases of the elderly.
5.- Achieve expertise in the management of geriatric syndromes
6.- To become introduced to the scientific methodology applied to the study of aged populations or elderly people.

TITLES
Master: 340 hours o theory classes: CE 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, plus a research report.
Postgraduate Diploma: 190 hours of theory classes: CE 2, 3 and 4, plus research report.
Majoring courses: 40 to 90 hours of theory classes

MODULES

CE 1. Gerontology basics: 60 hours

CE 2. Geriatrics basics: 80 hours.

CE 3. Geriatric syndromes:

CE 4. Intervention and health care levels:

CE 5. Organs and systems diseases:

The lessons will be given in the clasrooms of the Centre d'Estudis Col·legials del Col·legi de Metges de Barcelona (Passeig de la Bonanova, 47. 08017 Barcelona)

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