VLGE092 Geriatrics

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Guaranteed by
MUDr. Katarína Bielaková, Ph.D., MHA
Department of General Internal Medicine – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of General Internal Medicine – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites
for students of 7. - 12. semester of medical faculty
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to make students known with principles of the comprehensive approach, with differencies of diagnostics and therapy of elderly people, with functional geriatric assessment and its followings for planning of further care to keep the independency and the ability of the elderly to remain in their own environment. At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain the comprehensice approach to elder patients; work with information on pecularities of pharmacotherapy of seniors for composition of effective and rational therapeutic scheme; to create the plan of further care on the ground of results of funcional geriatric assessment.
Syllabus
  • 1 Gerontology, geriatrics - history, development, education system in CR, principles of geriatric care 2 Complex geriatric assessment (CGA) 3 Screening of cognitive disturbances, depression 4 Geriatric syndromes, Specialities of diseases in elderly 5 Interdisciplinary syndromes – giants of geriatrics „4 I“ 6 Instability, falls, diagnostics, treatment 7 Intelectual disturbances 8 Inkontinentia - diagnostics, solutioins 9 Skin intrgrity s disorders 10 Imobilization 11 Psychical disturbances in elderly - depresion, deliria 12 Principles of farmacotherapy in elderly 13 Social topic in geraitrics 14 Successful ageing
Literature
  • KALVACH, Zdeněk. Geriatrie a gerontologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2004, 861 s. ISBN 8024705486. info
  • TOPINKOVÁ, Eva. Geriatrie pro praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2005, 270 s. ISBN 8072623656. info
  • MATĚJOVSKÁ KUBEŠOVÁ, Hana, Pavel WEBER, Pavel ŠEVČÍK, Michal MAŠEK, Zdeněk KADAŇKA, Blanka VEPŘEKOVÁ, Vlasta POLCAROVÁ, Roman GÁL, Dagmar SEIDLOVÁ and Helena ONDRÁŠKOVÁ. Akutní stavy v geriatrii (Emergencies in geriatrics). 1st ed. Praha: Galén, 2009, 233 pp. akutní medicína, geriatrie. ISBN 978-80-7262-620-5. info
  • WEBER, Pavel. Minimum z klinické gerontologie : pro lékaře a sestru v ambulanci. 1. vyd. Brno: IDVPZ, 2000, 151 s. ISBN 8070133147. info
Teaching methods
lectures, training of complex geriatric assessment, geriatric syndromes simulation with models, composition of medications scheme for senior
Assessment methods
oral examination - case report
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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