AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowledge of:

• biological processes of aging with particular attention to the boundary between normal and pathological aging;
• geriatric epidemiology and geriatric syndromes;
• introduction to the description of the diseases most frequently encountered in the elderly and of the preventative, therapeutic, rehabilitative and care strategies;
• the concepts of frailty and disability associated with normal and pathological aging;
• introduction to the concepts of comorbidity of elderly patients;
• introduction to the multidimensional approach to the elderly patient

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

Role playing

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• Aging: Definitions and theories
• Geriatric epidemiology
• Cognitive changes associated with aging
• Effects of aging on memory
• Dementia and delirium
• Cognitive reserve
• Effects of aging on emotions and motivation
• Social changes associated with aging. The environment.
• Frailty in elderly people
• Hospitalization of the Elderly
• Successful aging
• Effects of physical and mental exercise on subjective well-being
• Principles of care
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RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Slides provided during the course

Read a book from this list:

• Lorenzo Marone, La tentazione di essere felici;
• Ernest Hemingway, Il vecchio e il mare;
• Italo Svevo, Senilità;
• Luìs Sepulveda, Il vecchio che leggeva romanzi d’amore;
• Marco Malvaldi, La briscola in cinque.