Geriatric Medicine Course
What will I learn?
Increase your skills in geriatric medicine (ukusalila bakalamba) with our detailed course made for medical workers. Look closely at how medicines are handled, understanding how different medicines affect each other, when people are taking many medicines (polypharmacy), and how to make sure medicines are taken correctly. Learn how to watch patients carefully and follow up, including how often to check on them and what health signs to look for. Help patients and their families by teaching them about their health, how to stick to their treatment, and how to talk about it clearly. Do full check-ups on older people and give them complete care, considering their lifestyle, food, and social support.
Apoia's Unique Offerings
Develop your skills
Enhance your practical skills listed below
Become good at managing medicines: Make sure older patients take the right medicines in the right way.
Do full check-ups: Check people's health well and find any problems common in older people (geriatric syndromes).
Get better at talking to patients: Give clear health information to patients and their families.
Give complete care: Include lifestyle, food, and social support in the care plan.
Create plans for watching patients: Change care plans based on health signs and regular check-ups.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters similar to the examples below
This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.