Acquire the most up-to-date knowledge in Rehabilitation Medicine in Geriatrics, with a professional master’s degree that comprehensively compiles the approaches used in the field”  

Quality care in rehabilitation requires physicians to have the tools to treat elderly patients whose abilities are affected to some extent, not only to maintain them but also to prevent or reverse the loss of autonomy that may ensue. 

Achieving these objectives must start from a theoretical framework with the tools physicians can use to create a clinically sound treatment strategy, set rehabilitation goals, and ultimately begin physiotherapeutic treatment.  

To do this, professionals must assess and explore the patient, understanding the most complex aspects, such as the patient’s social context, the framework of action (home care, residential centers, day care centers, social centers and 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, side effects from drugs and/or biopsychosocial conditions that may complicate the clinical picture.  

It is, therefore, essential to become familiar with the tools used in physiotherapy and the appropriate prescription for each case, such as active exercise, manual therapy, electrotherapy, among others. Physicians must also be able to work in interdisciplinary team, with appropriate communication tools, understanding the concept of person-centered care, having the most updated knowledge of support devices and even the support of current technology, if their physiotherapy treatments are to be successful.  

An in-depth study into various therapeutic situations that may arise with geriatric patients during rehabilitation” 

This professional master’s degree in Rehabilitation Medicine in Geriatrics contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. Its most notable features are: 

• 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 practicing 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
• Availability of content from any device, fixed or portable, with Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after   the program  

A study created to provide professionals with a complete and accurate vision of the interventions required in different cases that geriatric patients may present”

The topics and clinical cases proposed, as well as their resolution, are based on the practical experience of the teachers and on the latest advances in research and development that nurture this field of work.  

All the information is presented in the form of high-quality multimedia content, analysis of clinical cases prepared by the professors, master classes and video techniques that allow for the exchange of knowledge and experiences, for team members to maintain and update their educational levels, create action protocols and disseminate the most important developments in the approach to pathologies in physical medicine and rehabilitation.  

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different areas in this field of expertise. This way, TECH ensures that it delivers the up-to-date knowledge it intends to provide. A multidisciplinary team of specialized and experienced professionals in different environments, who will impart the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put the practical knowledge derived from their own experience at the service of the program: one of the differential qualities of this professional master’s degree.  

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodology used in the design of this professional master’s degree. Developed by a team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. That way, students will be able to study with a range of convenient and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the operability they need during the training. 

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, TECH uses telepractice:  With the help of an innovative, interactive video system and Learning from an Expert students will be able to acquire the knowledge as if they were working on each scenario in real life. A concept that will allow students to integrate and memorize what they have learnt in a more realistic and permanent way.  cing the scenario you are currently learning. A concept that will allow students to integrate and memorize what they have learnt in a more realistic and permanent way.   

With the real experience of rehabilitation specialists who will teach you to work in an interdisciplinary way, taking advantage of and promoting synergy between the various areas of intervention"

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: learning from an expert"

This professional master’s degree compiles the most up-to-date knowledge in geriatric rehabilitation medicine. The objective is to help students develop specialized knowledge by creating a well-structured foundation 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.  

The approach this professional master’s degree employs will allow you to learn and assimilate the content such that it becomes a real tool for professional development and growth” 

General Objective

• Develop a critical and reasoned attitude, based on the most recent scientific evidence, towards physiotherapeutic diagnosis in elderly patients, and learn to apply the appropriate treatment in order to reduce functional impotence, fragility and deterioration, thus favoring improved physical and mental health in old age.

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Clinical Reasoning in Geriatric Physiotherapy 

• Explain active aging from the patient’s point of view  
• Define physiotherapy scope of performance in geriatrics  
• Define the role played by physiotherapy in palliative care units  
• Define the use of new technologies in Geriatric Rehabilitation  
• Explain what interdisciplinary teams in geriatrics consist of  
• Define the composition and functioning of interdisciplinary teams  
• Explain the main functions within interdisciplinary teams  
• Establish the checklist for red/yellow flags in differential diagnosis   
• Describe the major geriatric syndromes  
• Explain what checklist for Red/Yellow Flags consists of  
• Define the most common red flags in clinical practice  
• Explain the proper approach to physical therapy sessions in geriatrics  
• Describe physiotherapeutic examination and assessment of geriatric patients  
• Define the effects of certain drugs on the neuromusculoskeletal system 

Module 2. Person-Centered Care (PCC)

Describe the ten commandments in person-centered care  
Explain transformation process from a service model to a PCC model  
Explain the physical therapy service provision in a PCC model  

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   
• Defining coordination between levels of care for continuity of care with the community

Module 4. Professional Approach to Patients 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  
• Defining 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, Update on 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 geriatric patients  
• Explain the physiotherapeutic treatment of the geriatric patient

Module 6. Update on Support Devices for Personal Autonomy

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

Module 7. Traumatology, Neurology, Pelvic Floor and Respiratory Conditions in the Elderly. Searching for Evidence

• Define the role played by 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 played by Physiotherapy in hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty  
• Define the role played by Physiotherapy in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis  
• Describe the role played by physiotherapy in amputee patients  
• Define the role played by physical therapists in prosthetic rehabilitation programs  
• Explain the recommendations for long-term management of the amputee patient  
• Define the physiotherapeutic approach to acute, subacute and chronic stroke patients  
• Describe the management of common complications in stroke patients  
• Explain new trends in physical therapy for patients with Parkinson's disease  
• Define the role played by physiotherapists in urinary incontinence and chronic urinary retention  
• Explain what respiratory Physiotherapy in COPD consists of  
• Explain what respiratory Physiotherapy in neurological conditions consists of  
• Define communication as a tool for successful treatment in physical therapy  

Module 8. Tools Used in Daily Practice in Geriatrics

• Define the basis of communication with the elderly  
• Explain communication difficulties associated with gerontological syndromes  
• Explain how professionals approach bereavement  

Make the most of this opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Rehabilitation Medicine in Geriatrics"