Certification course in Alzheimer's disease for university degrees in physiotherapy

Alzheimer's disease, the most frequent cause of dementia in the elderly, is a serious, degenerative disorder, produced by the gradual loss of brain neurons, whose cause is not entirely known. This course will train the student to help the patient in each of the areas where he needs it, acquiring the necessary skills to do so in the best possible way. In addition, through the course the student is instilled to provide moral support to the patient's family. Train the student to help the patient in each of the areas where he needs it, acquiring the necessary skills to do so in the best possible way. In addition, through the course the student is instilled to provide moral support to the patient's family. Thanks to the manual, the student will be perfectly trained to resolve any incidence that for the patient can suppose a loss of quality of life.

- Approach the most useful recommendations for the clinical, diagnosis and therapeutic management of dementias, based on the critical analysis of the best scientific evidence available today. - Promote the establishment and coordination, as well as the need to develop medical services specialized in Alzheimer's, also increasing the social health services - guaranteeing the continuity of the updated and coordinated training that allows a better quality of the patient. - Approach the legal theme of Alzheimer's problem. - Deepening in care techniques and promoting the patient's quality of life. - Knowledge of Alzheimer's disease in particular and dementia in general.

Health field in general

The course on Alzheimer's disease prepares the student for all the work that entails working with people who suffer from this disease, to understand in depth Alzheimer's disease and know what are the ways of acting to improve the quality of life of the patient as much as possible. We do not speak only of a practical action when developing a job with this type of patient, but we must deepen and go back to the causes and consequences of the disease, therefore the course offers a theoretical point of view so that once understood is very useful to put into practice.

The professional technician course in Alzheimer's disease is aimed at university degrees in physiotherapy that wish to expand and specialize their training in care for people with Alzheimer's.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.