ACTIVE SENIORS, HEALTHY LIVING.
Training for health educators.
Dates: July 5th to 9th 2010
Place: Alicante Town University Venue- Rafael Altamira Hall
Aims of the course
With the aim to promote actions for elderly persons’ health improvement and maintenance from a proactive attitude and a integral health concept (nutrition, healthy habits, physical activity, drug consumption, emotional health, attention and memory, accident prevention), this course makes the participants familiar with the necessary methodologies and tools in the training for health professionals (medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, physiotherapy and social work) and volunteers working with elderly persons. From a multidisciplinary point of view, specific contents, didactic and applied communication methods will be developed.
Grants
This course which is entirely given at the Alicante Town University Venue, counts with 30 grants of complete fee exemption (free enrolment) offered by the Permanent University of the University of Alicante (UPUA). The grants are given, in case of the students according to their academic record, and in case of the professionals the criteria are unemployment, as well as in any case the enrolment order of the grant applicants, from the first enrolment day on.
Material of the course
The students enrolled will receive, apart from resources which are available in multimedia form through the intranet of the Summer University Rafael Altamira for the purpose of training and practice, publications edited by the Main Institution for Education and Culture of the EU and by Mapfre.
Addressed to:
- Health professionals in general (general practitioners, geriatricians, pharmacists, psychologists, nursing professionals in their different forms, social workers, physiotherapists).
- Personnel in training (last year students of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, physiotherapy and social work)..
- Volunteers who daily work with seniors.
Organization: Permanent University – Summer University Rafael Altamira
In collaboration with: Official Pharmacists Board and MAPFRE foundation, Main institution of Education and Culture of the EU (Lifelong Learning Programme).
Information and Enrolment: Summer University Rafael Altamira
San Vicente del Raspeig Campus,
03690 Alicante,
Tel: +34 965 90 98 21
Fax: +34 965 90 38 39
Email: univerano@ua.es
ACTIVE SENIORS, HEALTHY LIVING. Training for health educators.
PROGRAMME
Director: Concepción Bru Ronda
Secretary: Encarnación Gómez García
MONDAY, July 5th 2010
Morning
9.00-10.00 h. Handing in of the documentation. Presentation and introduction to the course “ACTIVE SENIORS, HEALTHY LIVING. Training for health educators.” Concepción Bru Ronda, Doctor of Geography and Head of the Permanent University of the University of Alicante; Encarnación Gómez García, Head of the Medicine Information Centre. Official Pharmacists Board Alicante.
10.00-11.15 h. Opening Lecture: A healthy longevity is possible. Mónica De La Fuente del Rey, Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Science. Complutense University of Madrid.
11.15 h-11.45 h. Break
11.45-13.00 h. 1st part First Training Module: Nutrition for a healthy ageing and efficient and responsible consume for the nutrition of the elderly. Theoretical Fundamentals. Carlos Puerta Sanz, Doctor attending especially elderly persons, Hogar Provincial and Collaborating teacher UPUA.
13.00 h-14.00 h. 2nd part First Training Module: Nutrition for a healthy ageing and efficient and responsible consume for elderly persons’ nutrition. Case studies and basic actions in daily life. Carlos Puerta Sanz, Doctor attending especially elderly persons, Hogar Provincial; Alfonso Soler Gomis, Doctor and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education UA.
14.00-16.30 h. Lunch-Workshop: Design and election of a healthy diet. In cooperation with employers of the food industry and nutrition experts.
Afternoon
17.00-19.00 h. Roundtable: Gerontology and Geriatrics. The importance of the specialized approach and treatment in healthy ageing.
Chairwoman and moderator: Dr. Mónica De La Fuente del Rey, Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Science. Complutense University of Madrid.
Participants: Dr. José Gregorio Muñoz Duque, Geriatrics Unit. Health Centre San Vicente del Raspeig GV; Dr. Álvaro J. Prieto Seva, Doctorate in Medicine and Regional Director of Alicante. Social Welfare Department; Dr. Carlos Puerta Sanz, Doctor attending especially elderly persons, Hogar Provincial and Collaborating teacher UPUA.
TUESDAY, July 6th 2010
Morning
9.00-10.15 h. 1st Part Second Training Module: Emotional intelligence as a strategy of coping with situations in a healthy life. Theoretical Development. Antonio Vallés Arandiga, Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Psychology, UA, Faculty of Education UA.
10.15–11.30 h. 2nd Part Second Training Module: Case studies, Role-plays and exercises to put into practice for the integral health management of elderly persons. Antonio Vallés Arandiga, Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Education UA.
11.30 h-11.45 h. Break
11.45-13.00 h. 1st Part Third Training Module: Psychological well-being and quality of life for seniors: Theoretical Fundamentals on Memory and its processes. Alberto Plaza Salán, Collaborating Teacher UPUA, and Consultant of the Psychology Department.
13. 00-14.15 h. 2nd Part Third Training Module: Memory stimulation. Practical development for the management of the healthy psychological ageing. Alberto Plaza Salán, Collaborating teacher UPUA, and Consultant of the Psychology Department.
WEDNESDAY, July 7th 2010
Morning
9.00-10.15 h. 1st Part Fourth Training Module: Medicine and the therapeutic pharmacology for the elderly. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. Theoretical development Encarnación Gómez García, Head of the Medicine Information Centre. Official Pharmacists Board Alicante.
10.15-10.45 h. Break
10.45-12.00 h. 2nd Part Fourth Training Module: Essential guidelines and criteria for older adults about taking medicine. Case studies. Myriam Cano Arribí, Pharmacy Graduate, Board of Directors. Official Pharmacists Board Alicante.
12.00-13.30 h. Lecture: Skills for communicating with the elderly. Educating communication for elderly persons’ health. Carmen Torralvo Iglesias, Head of the FB Consultants.
Afternoon
16.30 - 19.00 h. Guided visit to the Official Pharmacists Board of the Alicante Region and Practical Workshop in the Department of Galenical Pharmacy: Production of a patent medicine.
THURSDAY, July 8th 2010
Morning
9.00-10.00 h. 1st Part Fifth Training Module: Healthy habits in the cellular ageing prevention and in the pathology appearance. Theoretical fundaments. Alfonso Soler Gomis, Doctor and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education UA.
10.00-11.15 h. 2nd Part Fifth Training Module: Healthy habits in the cellular ageing prevention and in the pathology appearance. Case study and basic actions in daily life. Alfonso Soler Gomis, Doctor and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education UA and J. Álvaro Prieto Seva, Doctorate in Medicine and Regional Director of Alicante, Social Welfare Department.
11.15 -11.30 h. Break
11.30-12.30 h. 1st Part Sixth Training Module: The importance of physical activity for elderly persons in order to maintain functional and emotional abilities, prevention and treatment of pathology and the slowdown of the ageing process. Lilyan Mercedes Vega Ramírez. Adjunct Professor, General and Specific Didactics Department, Faculty of Education UA.
12.30-14.00 h. 2nd Part Sixth Training Module: The importance of physical activity for elderly persons in order to maintain functional and emotional abilities, prevention and treatment of pathology and the slowdown of the ageing process. Practical development and proposals for basic actions in the older adults’ daily life. Juan Tortosa Martínez, Assistant Teacher Doctor General and Specific Didactics Department, Faculty of Education UA.
Afternoon
16.00 -17.00 h. Lecture: Physical activity and leisure time in Gerontology. Longevity and Health. José Manuel Mayan Santos. Professor of Geriatric Nursing and Gerontology, Department of Geriatric Nursing and Gerontology, University of Santiago de Compostela.
17.00-19.00 h. Roundtable: Healthy habits in ageing prevention. Evidences of the negative influence of tobacco, alcohol and inactivity in the acceleration of ageing and changing attitudes in the seniors of the 21st century.
Chairman and moderator: José Manuel Mayan Santos, Professor of Geriatric Nursing and Gerontology, Department of Geriatric Nursing and Gerontology, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Participants: Ana Laguna Pérez, Head of the Nursing School UA; Rolf Grozinger, Student of the Permanent University and Volunteer in the EHLE project; Alfonso Soler Gomis, Doctor and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education UA; Juan Tortosa Martínez, Assistant Teacher Doctor General and Specific Didactics Department, Faculty of Education UA.
FRIDAY, July 9th 2010
Morning
9.00-10.00 h. Workshop: Domestic accidents prevention: CON MAYOR CUIDADO – WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION. Coordination Miguel Ángel Sarabia Romero, Head of the Prevention Service of the University of Alicante. Collaboration MAPFRE foundation.
10.00–11.30 h. Roundtable: The ageing of the 21st century population. Health education as a fundamental strategy for seniors’ quality of life.
Chairwoman and moderator: Concepción Bru Ronda, Doctor of Geography and Head of the Permanent University.
Participants: Jaime J. Carbonell Martínez, President of the Pharmacists Board of the Alicante region; Mª Luisa Mataix Scasso, President of the UPUA Students and Alumni Association; Emilia Tonda Monllor, College Professor, Faculty of Education UA; Expert of the MAPFRE foundation.
11.30-12.00 h. Final colloquium.
12.00 -14.00 h. Evaluation and closing.
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