HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE

GER4HWB

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

The subject examines how aspects of health in later life can be improved at an individual, program and societal level, and adopts a life span and bio-psycho-social approach to underpin student learning. Students examine various domains that influence the wellbeing and quality of life of older persons. Topics include health promotion; material and socioeconomic contexts of ageing; social and activity engagement and their relevance to a sense of self; isolation, mobility, transport and the environment; and concepts of happiness, intimacy and sexuality, faith and spirituality, loss and change, grief and grieving and the quality of dying.

Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Robin Lovell

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: GER4FSG

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: OCT4HWB

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: Subject offered contingent upon sufficient enrolments.

Learning resources

Readings

Resource TypeTitleResource RequirementAuthor and YearPublisher
ReadingsOCT4HWB distance education packagePrescribedSchool of Occupational Therapy 2010SCHOOL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Subject not currently offered - Subject options not available.