7 courses with the subject GCM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This course will cover an introduction to geriatric case management, review standards and practice guidelines, cover geriatric assessment, psychopathologic conditions common in the elderly, ethics, care planning, communication issues, and other related issues.
This course will cover an understanding of the continuum of care, providing for nutrition, senior community centers, adult day care, home health organizations, housing options, transferring from home to institutional settings, report writing, counseling and other related topics.
This online course provides an overview of the basic structure and functions of the human body, emphasizing anatomy and physiology. With this foundation, age-related characteristics and some dysfunctions associated with the aging process are studied. Students will utilize the tools of analysis, synthesis and evaluation to assess body functions and age related changes.
This course will concentrate on dementia’s that afflict the elderly in ever increasing numbers, focusing on the magnitude, pathology, progression, treatment and interventions of these diseases. Client, family, human service systems, long term care as well as personal care issues will be studied in depth. The course will offer opportunities for geriatric care managers to gain a pragmatic experience in dealing with dementia clients, their families and other care providers.
This course will cover the numerous assessments available to the geriatric care manager. The assessments address ADL’s, psychological, sociological, medical and spiritual aspects of client served by the geriatric care manager.
This course will address the various aspects of ethics that a geriatric care manager will confront in his or her practice. This will include bioethics, business ethics, social ethics and philosophy of a personhood.
An in-depth course of study of a specific aspect of geriatric care management. This would entail small groups of advanced level students.
Source: Misericordia University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
