Geriatric Psychiatry Specialist Course
What will I learn?
Improve your skills with the Specialist Course in Mental Health for Older Persons, made for mental health professionals who want to be good at looking after older people. Learn how to write good reports, help build support from family and the community, and understand mental health problems like dementia and depression. Make complete care plans, including treatments that don't use medicines, and do full check-ups for older people. This good course will help you give very good care to older people.
Apoia's Unique Offerings
Develop your skills
Enhance your practical skills listed below
Write good reports: Make sure your mental health reports are correct and easy to understand.
Build support: Help patients get support from their families and communities.
Find mental health problems in older people: Know how to spot problems like thinking problems, feeling down, and feeling worried.
Make care plans: Use treatments with and without medicines.
Do check-ups for older people: Look at their health, family situation, and thinking abilities.
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.