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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - GEY6643
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-01-24
- Department: School of Aging Studies
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 0122900
- Contact Person: Sandra Reynolds
- Phone: x9750
- Email: sreynold@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: GEY
- Number: 6643
- Full Title: End of Life Care for Dementia Patients
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): EOL Care Dementia
- Course Online?: -
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R - Regular
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- Course Description: This course addresses progressive degenerative dementias: Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, vascular and fronto-temporal dementia, and will address treatment, medical, ethical and legal questions. Not restricted to majors. Not repeatable.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course is an important elective for our Graduate and PhD students who are interested in an in-depth examination of progressive degenerative dementias in the elderly. We have a distinguished lecturer who comes here every year to teach this class and
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This class will draw from our Graduate, Certificate, and PhD students. it would also be of interest to graduate students in Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, twice.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Gerontology or related sciences.
Research in dementia is preferable.
- Objectives: * Increase students' knowledge of progressive degenerative dementias include Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, vascular dementia and fronto-temporal dementia.
* Familiarize students with treatment available and their limitations.
* Make students sensitive to the medical, ethical and legal questions involved in management of individuals suffering from these diseases.
- Learning Outcomes: Successful completion will enable the student to:
1. Describe different forms of progressive degenerative dementias, their course and pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease
2. Identify three main dimensions and domains of quality of life in individuals with advanced dementia
3. Describe medical issues in dementia care, and advantages and disadvantages of different strategies for their management
4. Discuss issues faced by families of individuals with dementia
5. Understand ethical and religious issues in dementia care and participate in discussion of an advance proxy plan
6. Describe behavioral symptoms of dementia and their three primary causes
7. Develop meaningful activities for individuals with advanced dementia
8. Describe and utilize research methodology in advanced dementia
- Major Topics: *Overview of dementias, their pathogenesis and course, overview of palliative care
*Quality of life in advanced dementia
*Comorbidities and their management
*Intercurrent infections and their management
*Eating difficulties and their management
*Caregiver issues in advanced dementia and end-of-life care
*Ethical and legal issues in dementia care
*Behavioral symptoms 1: Physical causes
*Behavioral symptoms 2: Mood disorders
*Behavioral symptoms 3: Hallucinations and delusions
*Hospice involvement in dementia care
*Research methods in advanced dementia
- Textbooks: Hospice Care for Patients with Advanced Progressive Dementia, L. Volicer and A. Hurley eds., Springer Series on Ethics, Law, and Aging, Springer Publishing Company, 1998
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.