Demand on your CARE: Presentation of illness symptoms in older adults

Course introduction

Welcome to CUHK's ELDER014!
Demand on your CARE: Presentation of illness symptoms in older adults

About this course
This course is part of a MOOC series of the "Jockey Club CADENZA e-Tools for Elder Care" funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

This course is open to health and social care professional or anyone who are interested to this subject in committing their effort in helping seniors to embrace ageing positively. Ageing is a normal process in life which may bring us different challenges. To foster healthy ageing and improve the quality of life of older adults, how we think about age and ageing is very important. Taking this course will help you understand the ageing trajectory, the common geriatrics syndromes and illness symptoms, and how we could promote healthy ageing by using the WHO recommendations.

The course opens on 31 July, 2023 and will run through identical issues till mid of 2025. Let us go through the "Jockey Club CADENZA e-Tools for Elder Care" in understanding the caregiver stress.

There are 3 chapters and quizzes in this course. We estimate that you will need to spend no more than 2 contact hours on average to complete the course. It is in self-paced mode. You can study at anytime and anywhere you want. We suggest you could study in a weekly basis for each chapter at your own schedule. Before you start, here is some helpful information for successful completion of this course.

Assessment
After study all the chapters, there will be an assessment consists of 10 quizzes. To facilitate your learning process, the assessment allows multiple attempts. While answering the questions, you are free to refer back to the teaching materials for answers.

After completion of this course with 50% passing marks, certificate of attendance or 2 Council-CNE points certificate (Nurse only) will be awarded. Please refer to the information 'How to get certificate' for details.

What you will learn

• Concepts of healthy ageing and intrinsic capacity
• Ageing trajectory
• Common geriatrics syndromes and illness symptoms
• Recommendations for promoting healthy ageing

Requirements
There is no entry requirement.

Course Staffs
Prof. Jean Woo
Director
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Dr. Tung Wai AuYeung
Geriatrician
Honorary Associate Professor
CUHK Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Noble Law
Consultant
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Ms. Maggie Wong
Nursing Officer
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Mr. Ricky Lau
Registered Physiotherapist, Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Professional Consultant (honorary)
CUHK Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine

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