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Practical Training: Preventive and Empowering Work with Elderly People (6 cr)

Code: GERAEV510-3005

General information


Enrollment

16.04.2022 - 07.09.2022

Timing

19.09.2022 - 14.10.2022

Credits

6 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

12 - 38

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology

Teachers

  • Anna-Kaarina Koivula
  • Tua Niemelä

Student groups

  • MGERO20

Objective

Upon completion of the course, students know how to identify needs of aged people that can be met by the tools of preventive and empowering gerontological work. Students know how to select and apply various methods and forms of support and recognise what challenges their use may involve. Students analyse their professional development.

Content

Practical training in a setting which allows familiarization with preventive, psychosocial, sociocultural or other resource-oriented or empowering practices. Students' approach to methods depends on the possibilities offered by the placement.

Materials

No literature.

Teaching methods

Practical Training in working life.

Completion alternatives

Studying in your own work.

Student workload

160 hours.

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass:
Students extensively identify needs for preventive and empowering gerontological work. They are able to plan and compare services and forms of support and use them in practical client situations. Students analyse their professional development realistically.

Fail: Students are able to identify and name various services and forms of support, but their planning and practical application is lacking. They do not know how to analyse their professional development adequately.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written plan of the internship, completion of the internship, feedback from the instructor, presentation of the report at the seminar.

Qualifications

Preventive and empowering methods