Study Guide

Graduates
- apply multi-disciplinary gerontological knowledge and skills to elderly care and services and understand ageing from the perspectives of individuals and their life courses and from the perspectives of community and society
- have adopted a resource-oriented approach to old age as a foundation for their work with the elderly
- observe and promote the implementation of ethical principles defined for elderly care
- promote self-determination, justice and individuality to provide dignified old age
- are capable of acceptance, empathy, dialogue and reflective interaction with all kinds of people
- know how to approach ageing people from different cultural backgrounds
- work in a holistic and multi-disciplinary manner, paying attention to aged clients’ individual backgrounds in a variety of settings

Graduates
- in multi-professional collaboration, assess, plan and implement service packages based on elderly clients’ needs
- are able to assess and anticipate aged people’s holistic wellbeing, ability to function and need for services in relation to clients’ resources, individual lives and coping in their respective environments
- assess, implement and coordinate multi-disciplinary, individual services for elderly people
- use tools and methods for assessing functional capacity and apply knowledge of activities that promote the well-being of elderly people
- are aware of social and health risks, including their background factors, that jeopardize elderly people’s well-being and ability to function
- together with other professionals, know how to assess elderly people’s needs for assistive equipment and support them in the use of the equipment

Graduates
- in their counselling work, observe principles of foresight and preventive work with the elderly, promoting clients’ health and well-being
- take action to prevent elderly people’s social exclusion and related risks
- disseminate information on factors related to elderly people’s health and well-being
- are familiar with the case management approach and use methods of case management and networking when counselling individual clients and groups
- by their counselling, promote social engagement and empowerment of elderly people while respecting their self-determination
- in their work, apply community group counselling and goal-oriented group counselling methods
- know how to counsel and advise elderly people, their next of kin, families and significant others on meeting their individual needs and coping in daily life
- are familiar with special features in counselling elderly people and able to carry out the counselling process so that they take into account people’s individual needs

Graduates
- promote elderly people’s social engagement and agency in care, nursing and rehabilitation services
- know how to use a resource-oriented and rehabilitative approach to work and how to apply important elderly care methods in their work with individuals and groups
- use information and welfare technology to provide a safe and functional environment
- know how to use socio-cultural and action methods and how to strengthen the sense of community as part of care, nursing and rehabilitation
- are able to implement and evaluate safe pharmacological care for aged people
- recognize common diseases and their effect on aged people’s ability to function and know how to counsel them in the treatment of diseases and in rehabilitation
- are familiar with methods of caring for, supporting and rehabilitating people with dementia and able to develop services for people with memory disorders
- know how to support home-living elderly people and care-giving families and are able to develop services to support these families

Graduates
- are familiar with important national and international strategies and objectives designed for elderly policies and use them to develop services and their quality
- participate in public discussion on the life and position of aged people in society and service provision systems; use their expertise to influence these
- are familiar with service settings and service provision (public, private and third sector) and able to apply their knowledge to the organization, provision and development of services
- are familiar with social, health and rehabilitation services for aged people and with the relevant legislation, guidelines and programmes, so that they can apply their knowledge to both service development and client work
- extensively use culture and sports services to support functional capacity and well-being of aged people
- know how to co-ordinate multi-professional collaboration and the development, planning and implementation of services to meet the needs of aged people

Graduates
- are able to develop and manage work with the elderly in an ethical, client-centred manner
- know how to apply important strategies and theories on work community development and management to develop, co-ordinate and manage work with the elderly
- are able to evaluate the quality of services provided for the elderly and to use important tools of quality work
- demonstrate flexibility and an ability to conduct dialogue in the work community; possess negotiation, reporting and counselling skills
- have an entrepreneurial approach to work
- are able to work in managerial positions and have basic skills in financial management and marketing
- know how to support staff welfare at work
- are able to apply research, development and innovation methods to develop services and work communities
- know how to work in projects
- apply gerontological research and knowledge to development and management
- are able to produce knowledge that serves the foresight work and development of services for the elderly

The graduating student recognises the strengths and development areas of their competence and learning methods, and they utilise the opportunities communities and digitalisation provide in their learning.
- Assesses and develops their competence and learning methods in different learning environments.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and appropriately apply the national and
international knowledge base and practices of their field.
- Also takes responsibility for group learning and sharing what has been learned.

The graduating student has versatile working life skills and is able to operate in work communities of their field.
- Is able to work constructively in a work community and promotes their own and their work community’s well-be-ing.
- Is able to act professionally in communication and interaction situations at a workplace.
- Utilises the opportunities offered by technology and digitalisation in their work.
- Understands the complexity of chang-ing working life and their own resilience in changing working life situations.
- Has capabilities for an entrepreneurial approach.

The graduating student adheres to the ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking the principles of equality and non-dis-crimination into account.
- Is able to take responsibility for their own actions and their consequences and reflects on them in accordance with the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Takes others into account and pro-motes equality and non-discrimina-tion.
- Take into account the realisation of di-versity and accessibility in their ac-tions.
- Understands the principles of respon-sible conduct of research and adheres to them.
- Is able to influence society based on ethical values.

The graduating student is familiar with the prin-ciples of sustainable development, promotes their implementation and acts responsibly as a professional and a member of society.
- Is able to use information related to their field in finding, implementing and establishing sustainable solutions and operating models.
- Understands sustainability challenges, their interdependencies and the vari-ous aspects of issues and problems.

The graduating student is able to operate in multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is familiar with the impacts of their cultural background on their activities and is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to monitor and utilise the inter-national development of their field in their work.
- Is able to communicate internationally in their work tasks.

The graduating student is able to develop solu-tions that anticipate the future of their own field, applying existing knowledge and research and development methods.
- Solves problem situations creatively and reforms operating methods to-gether with others.
- Is able to work in projects in coopera-tion with actors of different fields.
- Is able to apply existing knowledge in the field in development and utilises re-search and development methods.
- Is able to seek customer-oriented, sus-tainable and economically viable solu-tions, anticipating the future of their field.

• is able to act entrepreneurially in working life
• is able to recognise business opportunities
• understands the interactions between a company and its operating environment
• understands the principles of business profitability
• is able to analyse the operations and risks of a business