| CODE | GER1003 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Community and Residential Services for Older Persons | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Gerontology and Dementia Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Community and Residential Services for Older Persons sets social and health care practice with older adults firmly in the context of the new realities of ageing societies. It brings a focus onto the need for novel arrangements of community and residential care for older persons, especially in light of the contemporary organisational trends towards a market culture. At the same time, it throws light on the organisational arrangements of residential care services, offering a comprehensive review of the history of residential care, current provision, and an analysis of future trends. Study-unit Aims: - To explain the diversity of community and residential services available to older adults with different levels of dependence; - To examine the stages of care that an older person in need generally goes through, from home care to community care to residential care; - To demonstrate the continuity of care that older persons receive following discharge from a hospital, respite care, or convalescence home. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the extent to which an individual is able to contribute to their own service planning and how relevant are available services to older adults' needs; - Compare between different programmes of community care services that meet the physical, emotional and social needs of dependent older adults still living at home; - Report the importance of providing intermediate care services to frail older persons so that entry in residential care is prolonged as much as possible; - Explain the importance that residential care seeks to aid older residents to age actively, successfully and productively; - Compare the logistic and bureaucratic difficulties that community and residential acre managers face in providing optimum levels of community and residential care respectively. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Assess the dependence status and care needs of frail older persons living in the community; - List and describe the continuum of social and health care services for older persons in the community; - Demonstrate critical evaluation skills of social and health care services for older persons in the community; - Write reports on the aims and objectives of the range of social and health care services for older persons in the community; - Analyse the extent that older persons in residential are ageing actively, successfully and productively; - Explain how residential home managers can improve existing care services in their respective residential homes. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main texts: - Anderson, M.A. (2011). Caring for older adults holistically. F.A. Davis Company. ISBN-10: 0803625006/ISBN-13: 978-0803625006. - Hudson, A. and Moore, L. (2009). Caring for older people in the community. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-10: 0470518049/ISBN-13: 978-0470518045. Supplementary readings: - Binstock, R.H., George, L.K., Cutler, S.J., Hendricks, J. and Schultz, J.H. (eds.) (2006). Handbook of aging and the social sciences. 6th Edition. Burlington, MA: Academic Press. - Crawford, K. and Walker, J. (2008). Social work with older people. Learning Matters. ISBN-10: 1844451550/ISBN-13: 978-1844451555. - Dannefer, D. and Phillipson, C. (eds.) (2010). The SAGE handbook of social gerontology. New York: SAGE. - Froggatt, K., Davies, S. and Meyer, J. (2009). Understanding care homes: A research and development perspective. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN-10: 1843105535/ISBN-13: 978-1843105534. - Glasby, J. and Littlechild, R. (2004). The health and social care divide: The experiences of older people. Policy Press. ISBN-10: 1861345259/ISBN-13: 978-1861345257. - Milligan, C. (2009). There's no place like home: Place and care in an ageing society. Ashgate. ISBN-10: 0754674231/ISBN-13: 978-0754674238. - Ray, M., Bernard, M. and Phillips, J. (eds.) (2004). Critical issues in social work with older people. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN-10: 1403991251/ISBN-13: 978-1403991256. - Walker, R. and Rodgers, J. (2011). Implementing personalised care planning in long term conditions. SD Publications. ISBN-10: 1447793714/ISBN-13: 978-1447793717. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit is only offered to students following the Higher Diploma in Gerontology and Geriatrics course. | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Maria Aurora Fenech (Co-ord.) Alex Vella |
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