Geriatrics and Gerontology Academy · MINC-GG-003
Chronic Disease, Rehabilitation and Palliative Approaches
This 40-hour module develops safe, ethical and context-responsive competence in chronic disease, rehabilitation and palliative approaches. It comprises 40 one-hour units using guided reading, cases, practice products, knowledge checks, reflection and applied assessment.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Chronic Disease, Rehabilitation and Palliative Approaches prepares health workers in Uganda to assess multimorbidity and the treatment burden it places on a person, and builds from there to hold advance-care conversations, support palliative symptoms and coordinate transitions.
What you will be able to do
- Explain core concepts, professional responsibilities and limits.
- Use structured assessment and reliable practical tools.
- Apply evidence-informed decisions with safety, ethics and escalation safeguards.
- Adapt safely to realistic Ugandan resource constraints.
- Communicate, document, reflect and improve performance.
Units
- Multimorbidity and treatment burden: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Multimorbidity and treatment burden: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Multimorbidity and treatment burden: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Multimorbidity and treatment burden: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Multimorbidity and treatment burden: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic disease: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic disease: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic disease: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic disease: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic disease: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Respiratory and neurological disability: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Respiratory and neurological disability: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Respiratory and neurological disability: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Respiratory and neurological disability: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Respiratory and neurological disability: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Rehabilitation and assistive technology: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Rehabilitation and assistive technology: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Rehabilitation and assistive technology: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Rehabilitation and assistive technology: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Rehabilitation and assistive technology: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Nutrition and sarcopenia: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Nutrition and sarcopenia: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Nutrition and sarcopenia: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Nutrition and sarcopenia: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Nutrition and sarcopenia: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Advance-care conversations: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Advance-care conversations: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Advance-care conversations: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Advance-care conversations: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Advance-care conversations: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Palliative symptom support: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Palliative symptom support: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Palliative symptom support: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Palliative symptom support: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Palliative symptom support: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Care coordination and transitions: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Care coordination and transitions: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Care coordination and transitions: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Care coordination and transitions: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Care coordination and transitions: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
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