Practical Training: Supporting Meaningful Every Day Life of an Old Person (5cr)

Code: GERATP410-3009

General information

Enrollment: 25.08.2025 - 07.09.2025; Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 01.08.2025 - 31.12.2025; Implementation is running.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 5 cr

Mode of delivery: Contact learning

Unit: SeAMK Social Services and Elderly Care

Campus: SeAMK Seinäjoki, Kampustalo

Teaching languages: Finnish

Seats: 12 - 40

Degree programmes: Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology

Teachers: Hanna Mähönen

Groups: MGERO25
Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology, Multimodal implementation

Course: GERATP410

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Objective

Upon completion of the course, students are aware of the special nature of old age as a stage of life and make meaningful daily life possible for the aged. They are able to explain and compare changes in aged people's functional capacity and coping in daily life a based on the gerontological knowledge. They are able to be in interaction with the aged. The profession of the work with the aged begins to take shape to the student.

Content

Practical training in a setting which enables meaningful daily life for older people. Practical placement in selected by the student.

Teaching methods

Practical training in an environment suitable to the objectives of the course, weeks 46-48
Start and end seminar
Learning assignments; learning contract and themed learning diary

Employer connections

Practical training

Student workload

5 x 27h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Passed/fail.
Upon completion of the course, students are aware of the special nature of old age as a stage of life and make meaningful daily life possible for the aged. They are able to explain and compare changes in aged people's functional capacity and coping in daily life a based on the gerontological knowledge. They are able to be in interaction with the aged. The profession of the work with the aged begins to take shape to the student.

Fail:
Students have a narrow understanding of othe special nature of old age as a stage of life and making meaningful daily life possible for the aged. They have difficulties in in interaction with the aged Their personal learning needs are unrealistic.

Qualifications

The study unit: Gerontological knowledge base goes at the same time

Further information

If the student has no previous work or leisure experience in supporting meaningful every day life of an old person, this training must be completed. Otherwise, the student may replace the training with a demonstration of previous knowledge, on a separate demonstration day.