Information
Addressed: Health professionals, essentially doctors, nurses, managers and other professionals who work or manage patient assistance activities, in hospitals or in primary care.
Language: Catalan
Format: Online tutoring
Calendar: July 18,- September 18, 2024
Duration: 30h
General objectives :
- Provide basic knowledge about aging and improving the quality of life in old age.
Specific objectives :
- Know the sciences that study aging.
- Know the current vision of ageing, health and well-being.
- Understand the framework of aging theories and updates.
- Discover how to improve the quality of life throughout old age.
- Update on existing research, science and therapies on healthy aging and longevity.
Accreditation
Course participants will receive a certificate of utilization issued by UCF, after passing the assessment requirements.
Content
- Module 1. Longevity (6h)
- Medicine of Longevity
- Geriatrics, Gerontology and Geroscience.
- Epidemiology, sociology and economics of aging. Impact on public and global health.
- Vision and perspectives of this decade of Healthy Aging
- Medicine of Longevity
- Module 2. Aging (6h)
- What is aging: Definition and characteristics.
- Mechanisms of aging: latest research.
- Biomarkers of aging: selection criteria
- Module 3. Lifestyle interventions for healthy longevity (6h)
- Environment and aging
- Nutrition: food as a basis for health throughout our years.
- Physical exercise, sedentary lifestyle and its influence on ageing.
- Sleep and rest
- Module 4. Psychology of aging (6h)
- Cognitive aging
- Personality changes
- emotional well-being
- Social relations
- Healthy aging
- Module 5. Current research, science, therapy and diagnosis in healthy aging (6h)
- Senolítics i Geroprotectors
- Gene therapies
- Recent research into drugs or active ingredients that promote longevity
- Module 6. Future longevity: Designing a synergistic approach to planetary health and sustainability