57135 - Geriatrics and Gerontology

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Erminia Mariani
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: MED/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Podiatry (cod. 8479)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge about main alterations of organs and tissues with ageing

Course contents

Epidemiology of ageing

Immune response in elderly people

Ageing of organs

Sarcopenia

Falls and fractures in the elderly

Frailty

Readings/Bibliography

All teaching material will be available at the end of the course

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

Multiple choice questions: 30 questions in 60 minutes.

Teaching tools

Power point presentation

Office hours

See the website of Erminia Mariani