Study Guide

Objective

Students are able to recognize and describe a memory symptom and memory disorder, and the pathway from a diagnosis to an individual care and rehabilitation plan. With help of case management, they are able to define the client's and family's needs for support and guide clients towards timely services. Students are aware of the importance of timely counselling and guidance. They know how to support clients anticipating the management of their legal affairs, and how to support client's participation in care decisions. Students are aware of the meaning of the client's opinion and self-determination in rehabilitative care. Students make comprehensive use of non-pharmaceutical care options for memory disorders.

Content

-From a memory symptom to diagnosis
-Case management and service coordination for people and families affected by a memory disorder
-Planning individual care and rehabilitation
-Ethical issues, supporting the interaction of people with memory disorders, understanding challenging behaviour
-The situation of working-age people and families affected by a memory disorder
-A dignified daily life in a nursing home, social inclusion, self-determination
-Non-pharmaceutical care for memory disorders
-Foresight work

Teaching methods

Lessons, assignments, exam

Exam schedules

In the end of the course

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students are to some extent able to explain memory symptoms and memory disorders, and the pathway from a diagnosis to an individual care and rehabilitation plan. They demonstrate some understanding about how the case management approach can be used to define the client's and family's needs for support and how to guide clients towards timely services. Students are able to name and partly use non-pharmaceutical care options for memory disorders.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students can explain and recognize memory symptoms and memory disorders, and the pathway from a diagnosis to an individual care and rehabilitation plan. They know how to use the case management approach to define the client's and family's needs for support and how to guide them towards timely services. Students are aware of the importance of timely counselling and guidance when supporting clients anticipating the management of their legal affairs, and when supporting client's participation in care decisions. Students can make use of non-pharmaceutical care options for memory disorders. They are aware of the meaning of the client's opinion and self-determination in rehabilitative care and in solutions and decisions that affect the care.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students recognize memory symptoms and memory disorders, and master the pathway from a diagnosis to an individual care and rehabilitation plan. With awareness of multiple options, they know how to use the case management approach to define the client's and family's needs for support and how to guide them towards timely services. Students make comprehensive use of non-pharmaceutical care options for memory disorders. They see the wide range and potential of dementia work and are able to suggest concrete improvements for at the level of invididual clients and at the level of the system.

Assessment methods and criteria

1-5 exam and assignments

Qualifications

The module: Gerontological Care, Nursing and Rehabilitation