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PHYSIOTHERAPY AND REHABILITATION IN THE ELDERLY

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Academic year
2022/2023
Teacher
AMEDEO ZURLO
Credits
4
Didactic period
Secondo Semestre

Training objectives

The course gives basis knowledge useful to approach with wide range patients: pediatric patients (main features of children and main pathologies of pediatric ages, in particular signs and symptoms of pediatric neurological pathologies); adults and elderly patients (social psychological and clinical features) with ocular trauma, psychiatric and main general pathologies with ocular involves.
-Know any protocols and/or guidelines referred to existing rehabilitation programs for the elderly main issues. -Know the specific assessment tools of the physiotherapist (also with reference to ICF CORE SETS if any) .
-Assess health conditions, structure and function, activity, participation and contextual factors in the elderly (using valid and reliable assessment tools and clinical observation).
-Formulate rehabilitative goals (through clinical reasoning).
Plan the physiotherapy intervention, tailored to elderly person with any comorbidity.
- To provide basic skills and knowledge to appreciate the social, clinical, and psychological characteristics of the geriatric patient. To appreciate the importance of cognitive rehabilitation in older patients.

Prerequisites

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Modulo: 018523/3 - GERIATRIA (mutua dall'attività formativa MEDICINA INTERNA - 24441 del CdS ORTOTTICA ED ASSISTENZA OFTALMOLOGICA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Ortottista ed assistente di oftalmologia) - 1059)
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INTERNAL MEDICINE
Basic notions of human biology and physiopathology.


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Modulo: 53186 - FISIOTERAPIA NEI DISTURBI DELL'ANZIANO
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Preparatory courses to be passed before: Human physiology. Kinesiology and methodology of rehabilitation.
Knowledge and skills deemed already acquired:
PHYSIOTHERAPY IN DISORDERS OF THE ELDERLY:
Geriatrics, physiotherapy and neurological disorders, musculoskeletal rehabilitation

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Modulo: 53187 - DISTURBI PSICHIATRICI NELL'ADULTO E NELL'ANZIANO (mutua dall'attività formativa PSICHIATRIA - 24976 del CdS LOGOPEDIA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Logopedista) - 1058)
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PSYCHIATRY
Knowledge of psychology, of neuroanatomy and clinical physiology. Basic notions of anatomy and physiology

Course programme

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Modulo: 018523/3 - GERIATRIA (mutua dall'attività formativa MEDICINA INTERNA - 24441 del CdS ORTOTTICA ED ASSISTENZA OFTALMOLOGICA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Ortottista ed assistente di oftalmologia) - 1059)
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INTERNAL MEDICINE
Biology of Aging.
Elements of Geriatric Demography.
Methodology of approach to the geriatric patient: Multidimensional Evaluation and Intervention.
Physical disability: sarcopenia and frailty.
Geriatric Syndromes impacting Physical Disability.
Geriatric Syndromes with an impact on psycho-cognitive disability: Delirium, Depression and Dementia.


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Modulo: 53186 - FISIOTERAPIA NEI DISTURBI DELL'ANZIANO
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PHYSIOTHERAPY IN DISORDERS OF THE ELDERLY:
Meaning of geriatric rehabilitation. Role of the physiotherapist and physiotherapy approach in residential aged care team. Taking charge, assessment (tests and specific assessment scales) and physiotherapy intervention of the elderly and management of aids.
Frailty, aging, comorbidity, with special reference to Parkinson disease and parkinsonian disorders, dementia, hip/femur/humerus fractures/arthroplasty, immobilization syndromes, and amputation outcomes. Rehabilitative approach in major rheumatologic diseases in the elderly (coxarthrosis, gonarthrosis). Balance and Gait in the elderly. The falls in the elderly: risk factors, prevention and rehabilitation.

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Modulo: 53187 - DISTURBI PSICHIATRICI NELL'ADULTO E NELL'ANZIANO (mutua dall'attività formativa PSICHIATRIA - 24976 del CdS LOGOPEDIA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Logopedista) - 1058)
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PSYCHIATRY
The module forecasts 12 hours of frontal lectures.
Psychiatry as a science of mental health and its application in rehabilitation, theory and clinical models in psychiatry, the most important psychiatric disorders, with specific reference at the rehabilitation context (with particular attention to mood disorders, anxiety and adjustment disorders, psychiatric disorders secondary to medical factors), psychiatric and psychosocial implications of head-neck cancer (psychoncology), the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry in the General Hospital and Medical practice, psychiatric assessment and integrated intervention in rehabilitation (counselling, psychotherapy, principles of psychopharmacology).

Didactic methods

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Modulo: 018523/3 - GERIATRIA (mutua dall'attività formativa MEDICINA INTERNA - 24441 del CdS ORTOTTICA ED ASSISTENZA OFTALMOLOGICA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Ortottista ed assistente di oftalmologia) - 1059)
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INTERNAL MEDICINE
Frontal lessons with the support of audiovisuals.


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Modulo: 53186 - FISIOTERAPIA NEI DISTURBI DELL'ANZIANO
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PHYSIOTHERAPY IN DISORDERS OF THE ELDERLY: Front interactive lessons, discussion of clinical cases, practical lab demonstrations, video projections

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Modulo: 53187 - DISTURBI PSICHIATRICI NELL'ADULTO E NELL'ANZIANO (mutua dall'attività formativa PSICHIATRIA - 24976 del CdS LOGOPEDIA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Logopedista) - 1058)
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PSYCHIATRY
Frontal lessons

Learning assessment procedures

The final grade of the integrated course is given by the weighted average of the scores of the partial tests, each compared to the corresponding training credits.

Reference texts

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Modulo: 018523/3 - GERIATRIA (mutua dall'attività formativa MEDICINA INTERNA - 24441 del CdS ORTOTTICA ED ASSISTENZA OFTALMOLOGICA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Ortottista ed assistente di oftalmologia) - 1059)
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Modulo: 53186 - FISIOTERAPIA NEI DISTURBI DELL'ANZIANO
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PHYSIOTHERAPY IN DISORDERS OF THE ELDERLY: slides provided directly by the teacher. Baccini, Barnabei, Marchionni, Paci, Riabilitare la persona anziana, ELSEVIER 2011

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Modulo: 53187 - DISTURBI PSICHIATRICI NELL'ADULTO E NELL'ANZIANO (mutua dall'attività formativa PSICHIATRIA - 24976 del CdS LOGOPEDIA (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Logopedista) - 1058)
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PSYCHIATRY
Teacher’s handouts
Specific topics can be further developed in the following texts:
Balestrieri M., Bellantuono C., Berardi D., Di Giannantonio M., Rigatelli M., Siracusano A., Zoccali R.A., Manuale di Psichiatria. Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, Roma, II Edizione, 2014