Expert Course in Old Age

This course in Psychology in old age offers you a specialized training in the field. We must know that psychogerontology arises due to the aging of society. In careers such as teaching, pedagogy and psychopedagogy have been embarking on the learning and knowledge of ages such as childhood, adolescence and youth. However, activities for older people have had to be promoted. At present, educators not only have to know the world of childhood, adolescence and youth, but also to know about adulthood and old age. They must be prepared to develop activities with this type of students.

- Understand the professional profile of the psychogerontologist and the social resources available to the elderly. - Knowing how to identify the different stages that the elderly are going through and the changes that concur to each of them. - Understand the different pathologies and geriatric diseases, as well as learn to evaluate the various cognitive diseases. - Orient health personnel, teaching him to make an early diagnosis and knowing how to give the appropriate applications about what to do and how to treat the patient and their families in the corresponding stages of the gerontopsychiatric disease. - Update knowledge about gerontopsychiatry. - Deepen the role of health personnel in care for dementias. - Reflect the causes, the process and consequences of aging. - Orient to follow some guidelines to stimulate the energy and vitality of the elderly. - To see the elderly that their quality of life increases if they are integrated into the possibilities offered by society. -Provide more socio-cultural, socio-sanitary resources among others.

- Understand the professional profile of the psychogerontologist and the social resources available to the elderly. - Knowing how to identify the different stages that the elderly are going through and the changes that concur to each of them. - Understand the different pathologies and geriatric diseases, as well as learn to evaluate the various cognitive diseases. - Orient health personnel, teaching him to make an early diagnosis and knowing how to give the appropriate applications about what to do and how to treat the patient and their families in the corresponding stages of the gerontopsychiatric disease. - Update knowledge about gerontopsychiatry. - Deepen the role of health personnel in care for dementias. - Reflect the causes, the process and consequences of aging. - Orient to follow some guidelines to stimulate the energy and vitality of the elderly. - To see the elderly that their quality of life increases if they are integrated into the possibilities offered by society. -Provide more socio-cultural, socio-sanitary resources among others.

This course in Psychology in old age prepares to know the fundamental basis of geriatric psychology, deepening their own activities for the elderly, knowing and analyzing the psychosocial characteristics and needs of dependent people, applying techniques and strategies for support and development of social relationship skills adapted to intervention groups, etc.

This course in psychology in old age is aimed at all professionals in the field of psychogerontology, such as doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, pedagogues, psychopedagogues, geriatrics assistants and in general to all experts related to this area, interested in expanding and deepening their knowledge in the area of the psychology of the aging of aging and the elderly. Allow to acquire professional competences to be able to perform the psychological evaluation and intervention of healthy elderly, with cognitive impairment or other pathologies both in family and institutional fields.

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.