Incorporate the most current knowledge on intervention with geriatric patients into your physiotherapeutic practice, with a program that is established as the most comprehensive one in this sector"

Achieving up-to-date and quality professional performance in the field of geriatrics requires the physiotherapist to have the tools to create a treatment strategy based on clinical reasoning that leads them to set goals which they can then address with physiotherapeutic treatment.  

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 daycare centers or social centers and even private clinics).

This work should include treatments for pre-frailty, frailty, pain, trauma, neurological, respiratory and/or pelvic floor disorders, gerontological syndromes or cognitive impairment, and side effects of drugs and/or biopsychosocial conditions that may complicate the clinical picture.  

Therefore, it is essential to know the tools of physiotherapy and the appropriateness of its application in each case, such as active exercise, manual therapy and electrotherapy. It is important to be 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. All this can be key to success in physiotherapy treatment.

An intensive study of the different therapeutic situations that may arise with geriatric patients in the field of physiotherapy"

This online professional master’s degree in Geriatric Physiotherapy offers you the advantages of a first class scientific, educational, and technological course. These are some of its most notable features:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• Intensely visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents, 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 course

Easily and confidently acquire the most up-to-date vision of interventions for the different cases that geriatric patients may present" 

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 an immersive program to learn 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.    

This Geriatric Physiotherapy is an intense program created to allow the physiotherapist to learn in a dynamic and effective way" 

With the support of the most efficient audiovisual systems, the purpose of this professional master’s degree is that you not only acquire new knowledge, but that upon completion, you possess the working skills you need in this field" 

A syllabus that brings together the most current knowledge in terms of physiotherapy intervention in geriatric patients. The objective is to provide the student with specialized knowledge by creating a well-structured basis to help them identify the clinical signs associated with different patients' needs and developments, providing a broad and contextual view of the current practice in this field. 

You will learn and assimilate what you have learned, turning it into real tools for professional development and growth"

General Objective

• The general objective is to develop a critical and reasoned attitude towards the physiotherapeutic diagnosis in the elderly patient, based on the most recent scientific evidence, and to be able to apply appropriate treatment in order to reduce functional impotence, fragility and deterioration, thereby favoring an improvement in physical and mental health in old age

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Clinical Reasoning in Physiogeriatrics

• Explain active aging from the patient’s point of view
• Define the fields of action in geriatric physiotherapy 
• 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 of red and 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

Module 2. Person-Centered Care (PCC). A Look from Physiotherapy 

• Explain the process of transformation from a service model to a PCA model
• Explain the provision of physical therapy services in an ACP model
• Describe the decalogue of person-centered care

Module 3. Understanding Fragility 

• Define fragility from an integral vision 
• Explain the impact and detection of malnutrition and sarcopenia 
• Define the tools for comprehensive geriatric assessment of frailty 
• Apply the different frailty assessment scales 
• Explain the assessment of frailty in physical therapy 
• Explain the prescription of physical activity in the frail person 
• Develop strategies to implement group dynamics in the frail or pre-fragile patient 
• Define the risk factors for falls 
• Explain specific fall risk diagnostic tests 
• Describe restraint methods to prevent falls 
• Explain what patient empowerment at discharge consists of
• Define coordination between levels of care for continuity of care with the community

Module 4. Physiotherapy Approach to People Affected by Cognitive Impairment

• Define the risk factors, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment 
• Define the risk factors, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of dementia 
• Define the types of cognitive impairment: possible classifications 
• Define the causes and effects of cognitive impairment
• Describe the therapeutic interventions from the physiotherapy point of view 
• Describe strategies to promote family adherence to treatment 
• Define strategies to access the disoriented and/or disconnected user 
• Explain the application of music as a tool for working with people with dementia  
• Define the origin, indications and basic principles of basal stimulation 
• Define the advantages of basal stimulation 
• Define community intervention in physiogeriatrics

Module 5. Pain and Aging: An Update According to Current Scientific Evidence

• Explain the anatomy and physiology of pain transmission 
• Define the different types of pain 
• Describe pain and aging from a biopsychosocial paradigm 
• Define the different pain syndromes in geriatrics 
• Explain how to perform a proper pain assessment 
• Explain the pharmacological treatment of pain in the geriatric patient 
• Explain the physiotherapeutic treatment of the geriatric patient 

Module 6. Update on Support Devices for the Autonomy of People

• Define and classify the different assistive devices for daily-living activities
• Define and classify the different pressure-relieving devices for the prevention of pressure ulcers
• Explain the novelties in the different devices designed to facilitate mobility and correct positioning
• Explain the application of accessibility and architectural barrier removal support products
• Define new technology for the creation of low-cost support products

Module 7. Physiotherapy in Traumatology, Neurology, Pelvic Floor and Respiratory Disorders in the Elderly

• Define the role of physiotherapy in fractures and dislocations in the elderly  
• Explain the main fractures in the elderly and their physiotherapeutic treatment 
• Explain the main dislocations in the elderly and their physiotherapeutic treatment 
• Explain the role of physiotherapy in hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty
• Define the role of physiotherapy in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis 
• Describe the role of physiotherapy in the amputee patient
• Define the role of the physical therapist in the prosthetic rehabilitation program 
• Explain the recommendations for long-term management of the amputee patient 
• Define the physiotherapeutic approach to the acute, subacute and chronic stroke patient 
• Describe the management of common complications in the stroke patient 
• Explain new trends in physical therapy for patients with Parkinson's disease 
• Define the role of the physiotherapist in urinary incontinence and chronic urinary retention
• Explain what respiratory physiotherapy in COPD consists of
• Explain what respiratory physiotherapy in neurological conditions consists of

Module 8. Tools for the Daily Practice of the Physiotherapist in Geriatrics

• Define communication as a tool for successful treatment in physical therapy 
• Define the basis of communication with the elderly person
• Explain the communication difficulties associated with Gerontological Syndromes
• Explain the professional's approach to bereavement

Incorporate the benefits of physiotherapy in your work with the confidence of an expert and make your CV one of the most competitive in the field of physiotherapy"