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Faculdade de Ciências Médicas

Master on Health and Aging

Cycle

Segundo ciclo

Degree

Mestre

Coordinator

Prof. Doutora Maria Amália Silveira Botelho

Education objectives

- To qualify researchers, health professionals and policy makers, enabling them to contribute to an ongoing and critical thinking in all aspects of aging problematic of modern societies;
- To contribute to an adequate and qualified intervention on problems related to ageing issues, by building specific capacities and skills;
- To develop skills that enable students to identify needs, find solutions, diagnose risk situations, and organize and plan intervention actions;
- To contribute to the development of multidisciplinary knowledge, that can be applied in innovative and creative solution of new problems emerging from aging;
- To develop skills of analysis and assessment of problematic situations that occur throughout the aging process;
- To acquire knowledge and skills that actively contribute to reduce the adverse impacts of ageing through an early intervention for disease prevention and health promotion;
- And also to train technicians that are competent and able to intervene at the organizational level of performance in emerging areas related to social care and health.

Degree pre-requisites

 To complete 60 ECTS of the course work and 40 ECTS of the thesis.

Access to other courses

 

Structure

1st Year
Code Name ECTS
21175 Doenças Associadas ao Envelhecimento 3
21179 Envelhecimento e Habitat: Prevenção da Segurança e Adequação dos Habitats 2
21180 Intervenção e Monitorização Multidimensional 3
21173 Prevenção e Promoção da Saúde 3
21167 Psicologia do Envelhecimento 3
21182 Seminário de Acompanhamento de Projecto 13
21177 Seminário de Investigação I 3
21181 Seminário Temático 2: Cuidados Continuados 3
21183 Seminário Temático 3: Envelhecimento Activo 3
21178 Seminário Temático 1: Seminário de Investigação II 3
21171 Direito, Ética e Envelhecimento 2
21169 Demografia e Epidemiologia do Envelhecimento 3
21203 Envelhecimento e Políticas Públicas de Protecção Social 3
21176 Envelhecimento, Saúde e Doença Mental 3
21172 Envelhecimento, Família e Relações Intergeracionais 3
21168 Fisiologia do Envelhecimento 3
21174 Gestão das Unidades de Prestação de Cuidados 3
2nd Year
Code Name ECTS
21184 Dissertação 40