COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH POLICIES IN AGING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTG 5033 HEALTH POLICIES IN AGING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Geriatric Physiotherapy

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NURSEN ILÇIN

Offered to

Geriatric Physiotherapy

Course Objective

Provide knowledge on organizational and legal regulations and knowledge requires to see comprehensive picture of treatment.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Identify national and international health politics in elderly.
2   Critically analyze national and international health politics in elderly.
3   Identify universal ethical principles of health politics in elderly.
4   Know the types of social and private insurance systems, health and care services provided specially to elderly.
5   Know Turkish health politics, application differences between Turkish and global politics.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and information on course content
2 Introduction and information on course content
3 National and international applications health politics
4 Compare and analyse different health politics of elderly
5 Compare and analyse different health politics of elderly
6 Compare national and international social and private insurance systems
7 Types of health and care services special to elderly
8 Place of physiotherapy health and care services special to elderly
9 Role of physiotherapist health and care services special to elderly
10 Funding of physiotherapy health and care services special to elderly
11 Ethical issues of physiotherapy health and care services special to elderly
12 Malpractice in physiotherapy health and care services special to elderly
13 Literature review
14 Literature review

Recomended or Required Reading

DEÜ Library

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures in conference format
2. seminary presentations
3. Essays

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRF PERFORMANCE
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRF * 0.40+ FIN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE PRF * 0.40+ RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Nursen Ilçin Asist. Prof.PhD.
DEÜ SPTR Department of Geriatric Physiotherapy
Work phone: 412 49 36

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparing presentations 14 4 56
Final 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 164

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.11
LO.211
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51