Acquire the most up-to-date knowledge in the field of geriatrics from the physiotherapy perspective, with the most relevant techniques and protocols of the moment"

In order to create a treatment strategy for the geriatric patient, the physiotherapy professional must start from up-to-date clinical reasoning that leads to setting achievable goals, and finally addressing them with the most appropriate physiotherapeutic treatment depending on each situation.

To do this, the professional must assess and examine the patient, understanding the most complex characteristics such as the social context in which they live and the framework of action (home care, in residential centers, in day care centers or social centers or even private clinics).

It is therefore essential to know the tools of physiotherapy and the appropriateness of their application in each case, such as active exercise, manual therapy and electrotherapy. Being able to work in an interdisciplinary team, with appropriate communication tools, understanding the concept of person-centered care, having the most up-to-date knowledge of support devices and even the support of current technology can be key to success in physical therapy treatment.

Get ahead of the curve on the quality care that physical therapy specialists can provide when working with the elderly" 

This postgraduate certificate in Geriatrics and Physiotherapy offers you the characteristics of a program of high-level scientific, educational and technological level. These are some of its most notable features:  

• The latest technology in online teaching software    
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems 
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations    
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification  
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is available from any fixed or portable device with Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

Intensive learning that will allow you to include the proven benefits that physiotherapy can offer in different pathologies and situations of intervention with geriatric patients into your daily practice"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive learning programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts. 

A methodological approach based on proven teaching techniques to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way''

With the support of high quality audiovisual systems, the purpose of this program is that you not only acquire the knowledge, but that, upon completion, you possess the working skills you need in this field"

Acquire the most up-to-date knowledge in physiotherapy in different pathologies and conditions in geriatric patients with the quality of a high level program. The objective is to provide students with specialized knowledge by creating a well-structured basis to identify the clinical signs associated with the different needs and developments, providing a broad and contextual view of the activity of this field today.  

With a realistic and practical learning purpose, our program is conceived to turn the theory you will learn into real intervention competences"   

General Objective

• Based on the most recent scientific evidence, develop a critical and reasoned attitude towards physiotherapeutic diagnosis in elderly patients and to be able to apply an adequate treatment in order to reduce functional impotence, fragility and deterioration, thus favoring an improvement of physical and mental health in old age

Specific Objectives

• Explain active aging from the patient’s point of view
• Define the fields of action of physiotherapy in geriatrics
• Define the role of physiotherapy in palliative care units
• Define the use of new technologies in physiogeriatrics
• Explain what interdisciplinary teams in geriatrics consist of
• Define the composition and functioning of the interdisciplinary team
• Explain the main functions within the interdisciplinary team
• Establish the differential diagnosis. Red & yellow flags
• Describe the major geriatric syndromes
• Explain what red and yellow flags consist of
• Define the most common red flags in clinical practice
• Explain the proper approach to the physical therapy session in geriatrics
• Describe the physiotherapeutic examination and assessment of the geriatric patient
• Define the effects on the neuromusculoskeletal system of certain drugs
• Describe the decalogue of person-centered care  

A unique specialization program that will allow you to acquire advanced knowledge in this field"