| CODE | GER2018 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Long-term Care Services for Ageing Populations | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Gerontology and Dementia Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Long-term services are at the boundaries of health and social care, comprising a wide array of services to people whose limited ability to live independently carries on for an extended period of time. In fact, long term and residential care is one of the most researched areas of social policy. This study-unit promotes a strong consideration of the place of older people in wider society. The possibility that there might be good institutions within a society where attitudes to older people are less than good is possible. However, the study-unit will also focus on the inability of a significant number of long term care institutions to provide residents with autonomy, choice, dignity, individuality, self-determination, integration, privacy, and citizenship. Lectures will also discuss whether the opening of care to market forces has been beneficial in that the potential for new thinking has been unlocked. Study-unit Aims: - To explain the complex process that leads older persons to apply for a place in long-term care, the subsequent admission process, and finally, the phase of institutionalisation. - To examine the dynamics of a long-term care institution which consist of living arrangements that supply social and health care services 24 hours a day. - To analyze what constitutes quality of care 'benchmarks' in long term care. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe how far the role of residential care has been taken over by developments in nursing home care. - Demonstrate a knowledge of the various social and health care departments that one finds in long term care institutions. - Compare various types of long term care institutions (State-run, Church-run, and Private homes), both residential and nursing services. - Report on the extent that long term care limits autonomy and personal choice, and whether this is a positive option for some older people. - Explain the extent that residential and nursing care offer something unique in its own right. - Analyze to what extent has long term care become a symbol of the structured dependency of older people. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Assess the quality of care received by residents in long term care institutions. - List and describe the functions and responsibilities of long term care institutions. - Write reports that discuss and criticize the operational framework of long term care institutions. - Implement activities in residential and nursing care services that lead to higher degrees of active ageing. - Explain how residential home managers can improve existing care services in their respective residential homes. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main texts: - Johnson, Julia (2010). Residential care transformed :revisiting 'the last refuge'. London: Palgrave Macmillan. - Katherine Froggatt, Sue Davies and Julienne Meyer. (2009). Understanding care homes :a research and development perspective. London: Jessica Kingsley Pub. Supplementary readings: - Brown, Allan (1996) The social work supervisor :supervision in community, day care and residential settings /Allan Brown and Iain Bourne. Buckingham: Open University Press. - Stephen M. Golant and Joan Hyde (2008). The assisted living residence :a vision for the future. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press. - Carrier, Judith (2009). Managing long-term conditions and chronic illness in primary care :a guide to good practice. London: Routledge. - Bowden, Anni (2009) The activity year book :a week by week guide for use in elderly day and residential care. London: Jessica Kingsley P. - Doll, Gayle Appel (2012). Sexuality and long-term care :understanding and supporting the needs of older adults. London: Health Professions. |
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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 |
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