Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Illustrate how diverse factors (sociocultural, psychological, economic, occupational, environmental, legal, political, spiritual, and technological) interact to influence the health of an individual and the population.
• Describe the significance and frequency of caregiver fatigue, and strategies employed to address it.
• Explain how the concept of frailty impacts decision-making, goals of care, and care recommendations in older adults.
• Describe protective factors and coping strategies which enable older adults to thrive despite complexity and multi-morbidity.
• Describe approaches and challenges to working with different vulnerable populations to improve their health. (ex. people experiencing homelessness; people at extremes of the age continuum).

Assessments

• End of Integration Foundation (IF)

Tags

Part 5 Professional Competencies IF Week 9 IF Week 9 Geriatrics Delirium Elder Abuse Falls Frailty in the Elderly Incontinence, Urine, Adult Population Health, Health Equity and Determinants of Health 1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests. 1.7 Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds 4.2 Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers and other health professionals 4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses 5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others 5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law. 5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized. 5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations 6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population 6.5 Work effectively in various health care delivery settings and systems relevant to a variety of clinical specialties 7.2 Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served 7.3 Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the provision of healthcare in individual patients and populations 7.6 Participate in different team roles and appropriately apply leadership skills to establish, develop, and continuously enhance team function. Aged [M01.060.116.100] Aged, 80 and over [M01.060.116.100.080] Ageism [F01.145.813.629.500] Elder Abuse [I01.880.735.900.350.390] Frail Elderly [M01.060.116.100.540] Patient Care Team [N04.590.715] Population Health [N01.400.548]