Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE ACA0006

 
TITLE Working with Older Persons: Quality Intergenerational Service-Provision, Lifelong Education and Active Ageing

 
UM LEVEL 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus

 
MQF LEVEL 3

 
ECTS CREDITS 2

 
DEPARTMENT Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education

 
DESCRIPTION This study-unit engages participants and organisations with developing practices that support working with older persons in an efficient and ethical manner; and in a framework of asset-based sustainable development, intergenerational and lifelong education for active ageing.
Study-Unit Aims:

Learning Outcomes:

This study unit aims to:

- Sensitize participants to assets, issues, problems and limitations that distinguish (specific cohorts of) older adults; and
- Support service providers in close contact with older adults with professional development and capacity-building that dwells on asset-based, intergenerational and lifelong education for active ageing.

1. Knowledge & Understanding:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- Describe basic principles of asset-based, lifelong and intergenerational education that fosters active ageing;
- List characteristics, assets and needs that distinguish (specific cohorts of) older adults from other service users / social cohorts;
- List approaches and skills that can be deployed with (specific cohorts) of older adults in a given organsational / service-provision setting; and
- Describe steps which, a service provider can take when alarmed by the possibility that an older adult might be experiencing (or be at risk of) abuse (e.g., of cyber fraud, domestic and interpersonal violence, material poverty, social exclusion, etc.).

2. Skills:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

1- Use an asset-based lifelong and intergenerational education for active ageing perspective to review case scenarios of procedures undertaken when servicing (specific cohorts of) older adults; and
- Apply procedural measures that can be undertaken when suspecting that an older adult might be experiencing (or be at risk of) abuse.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

Main Texts:

- National Commission for Active Ageing (NCAA). (n.d.). National Strategic Policy for Active Ageing. Malta: NCAA.
Open access at: https://family.gov.mt/en/Documents/Active%20Ageing%20Policy%20-%20EN.pdf

- inVisible talents! (N/A). Online Test: Self-reflection Tool.
Open access: https://www.invisible-talents.eu/online-tool-en/

Supplementary Readings:

- Philipson, C. (2018). The New Ageing Enterprise: Austerity and the Crisis Construction of Old Age. Innovation in Aging 2(1): 369.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Oral and Written Exercises SEM1 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Maria M. Brown

 

 
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