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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Supporting Medicine Use by Older People with Visual and/or Hearing Impairment
University of Strathclyde and Dunhill Medical Trust
This online course will examine the challenges older people with sensory impairment might have and ask you to think about how you could contribute to improving their care.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Margaret C. Watson
Professor of Health Services Research
University of Strathclyde
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss sensory loss and impairment.
- Summarise the medicines management needs of older people (including risks and vulnerabilities).
- Describe the medicines management challenges faced by older people with sensory loss and impairment.
- Identify effective strategies to support safe and effective person-centered medicines management for older people with sensory impairment and loss.
- Practice person-centered medicines management support for older people with sensory loss and impairment.
Syllabus
• An introduction to sensory loss and impairment • Medicines and the Older Person • Supporting the Medicines Journey of older people with visual loss and impairment • Supporting the Medicines Journey of older people with hearing loss and impairment • Supporting the Medicines Journey of older people with dual loss and impairment
Issued on 12th September 2023
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