For students attending the course Palliative Medicine, 3 credits course code 9H1031

The sixth course in the Master's Courses in Dementia Care for Physicians deals with important issues that are relevant for the end-of-life care of patients with dementia.disorders.

Syllabus

Current syllabus

Overview of Master's Courses in Dementia Care for Physicians

About the course

The module includes 3 credits and lasts six weeks.

This module is, in addition to the introductory tasks, divided into three sections:

Palliative care in dementia
Symptom control
Liverpool Care Pathway

The module deals with important issues that are relevant for the end-of-life care of patients with dementia disorders. Patients with dementia disorders approaching the final stage of life have less ability to convey their thoughts and needs than cognitively healthy persons do. Therefore, those of us working in health care need to develop our ability to provide good care in the final stages of life to people with dementia disorders.

Master's Courses in Dementia Care for Physicians

This is the sixth of eight courses comprising the Master's Courses in Dementia Care for Physicians. None of the courses can be taken separately. The courses are offered as contract eduction, meaning that you can not buy a place on the course for yourself, contract education can only be bought by an employer for their employees.