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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course examines HIV/AIDS as a disease process and its effect on the aging population. Topics include transmission, universal precautions, treatment options, and psychosocial issues. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course is an overview of specifi c issues of men as caregivers. Topics include changing roles, research, future projections, and resources relating to men as caregivers. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course focuses on effective strategies for assisting the dying patient and his/her family. Topics include concepts of sub-acute care, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the effect of these issues on the elderly population. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course is an overview of how the political process affects issues of aging and delivery of services. It focuses on means of impact on the legislative process and the infl uence of this process on community resources for older adults. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course examines stress from a communication perspective, focusing specifi cally on caregivers. The concept of high-risk messages is introduced focusing on how stress reactions affect behavior and morale in residential care facilities and other systems of care for the elderly. Emphasis is on how a message is translated and how this translation affects stress, overload, and spill-over effects. Stress management skills are demonstrated. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course examines chronic diseases associated with age. Topics covered are osteoarthritis, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and stroke. In addition, the prevention and management of chronic illness through lifestyle choices are covered. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course examines religion and belief systems practiced by the elderly population in the U.S. The differences between spirituality and religiosity are discussed, as well as how both are integrated and manifested in the lives of the elderly. Spirituality as a coping mechanism and source of strength and hope is also discussed. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course examines basic sexual anatomy and physiology of men and women with emphasis on the changes that occur with aging. Topics include sexuality, menopause, impotence, sexually transmitted diseases, heterosexuality, and homosexuality of the older population. Credit/No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course is an overview of the unique factors involved in caring for the mentally ill and the homeless senior population. Topics covered are types and stages of mental illness, social stereotypes, resources for the mentally ill, effects of homelessness on elders, acceptance of aged homeless, and resources for elderly homeless. Credit/ No Credit only.
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5.00 Credits
Hours: 9 hours LEC This course examines both the right-to-die and right-to-life movements as they address the elderly and the dying. Topics include assisted suicide, advance directives, hospice, and palliative care. Credit/ No Credit only.
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