Demand on your CARE: Medication Management for Older Adults

Welcome to CUHK’s ELDER015!
Demand on your CARE: Medication Management for 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 have a proper medication management. Medication management is one of the major tasks in elder care. Empowering both older adults and caregivers with essential skills to ensure safe and effective medication usage is crucial. Taking this course will help you understand the common challenges of medication management in older adults, strategies for improving medication adherence and medication safety.

The course opens on 12 Jan, 2024 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 common challenges of medication management in older adults, strategies for improving medication adherence and medication safety.

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

• Age-related changes in medication use
• Polypharmacy and the common adverse drug reactions in older adults
• Assessment tools and strategies for safe medication
• Managing medication in dementia care
• Improving medication safety through technology and community resources

 

Requirements

There is no entry requirement.

 

Course Staffs

Prof. Jean Woo
Director
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Dr. James Ka Hay LUK
Geriatrician
Past President of the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society
Division Chief (Geriatrics), The University of Hong Kong
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

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

Mr. William CHUI
Pharmacist
President of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Hong Kong (SHPHK)
Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

 

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