Promoting Healthy Ageing Level 7 (Health CPD)

Key Details

Module Cost: £1,185
Further Information: fmh.cpd@uea.ac.uk

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Module Overview

This 20-credit, Level 7 module focuses on fulfilling learning criteria associated with NHS England’s Advanced Practice Credential Specification Community Rehabilitation for Healthy Ageing (2022) alongside their Advanced Clinical Practice in Older People Curriculum Framework (2022). The aim of this Specification and the Curriculum Framework is to support the delivery of high quality, evidence-based services across disciplines, which support and promote older people’s health, wellbeing, independence, and enablement through an empowering rehabilitative approach to health and care.

Undertaking this module will enable practitioners to provide assessments and interventions with older people using contemporary evidence-based approaches. Throughout the module there will be an emphasis on delivering person-centred services, through holistic approaches to assessment, interventions and care, in order to develop services to promote the health and wellbeing of older people, leading to improved services and enhanced quality of life for older people.

Key topics and areas of practice addressed within the module include models of health promotion for living well in later life alongside person-centred approaches to behaviour change, such as health coaching and motivational interviewing. The growing role of social prescribing and recognition of the need for shared decision-making alongside multi-agency working, help to address complex health and social needs arising through risk-laden scenarios which combine social isolation with multimorbidity and polypharmacy.

Social determinants of health and consideration of the role played by culture and spirituality in promoting health in later life, help to enhance the student’s awareness of individualised care and contextual factors, which together contribute to healthy ageing.

Specific areas of healthcare practice and the stages of health promotion intervention will be explored through case-based scenarios in terms of prevention, moderation and management of age-related conditions, alongside a consideration of assistive technologies to enable people to live well with long term conditions and acquired disabilities.

As part of the module students will have the opportunity to explore a range of therapeutic interventions that support rehabilitation and empowerment of older people. The module will encourage students to reflect on their own practice in order to identify areas for improvement, and to consider new ways of working in line with relevant contemporary evidence arising from research, theory and evaluation of outcomes from current practice.

Module Introduction: 07/01/26 10am

Online Learning Block Release Dates:

05/01/26, 19/01/26, 02/02/26, 16/02/26, 02/03/26, 16/03/26

Live Online Tutorial:

07/01/26, 21/01/26, 04/02/26, 18/02/26, 04/03/26, 18/03/26 all 10-11am

Live Online Webinar:

14/01/26, 28/01/26, 11/02/26, 25/02/26, 11/03/26, 25/03/26 all 10-12pm

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module you will be able to:

Critically analyse and evaluate diverse perspectives on promoting well-being in later life drawing upon physiological, psychological, cultural and social approaches, applied to both individuals and populations.
Critically appraise the impact of interventions on the wider determinants of healthy ageing and health equality for individuals and populations.
Apply advanced knowledge of person-centred practice to formulate, plan and prioritise the goals of individuals with clinical need to initiate, evaluate, and modify evidence-based rehabilitation through approaches to treatment/therapy and care, using strategies to enhance shared decision making.
Recognise and manage risk, uncertainty, and complexity, analysing and critiquing issues associated with risk, accountability and duty of care including your own role in promoting the physical, psychological, cultural and social well-being of older people.
Identify and critically apply advanced level expertise in influencing the promotion of a positive culture of personalised and holistic care within environments where older people live and/or receive health and care services.
Critically analyse how current systems and processes can be improved upon to enhance the quality of life of older people and their carers.

Teaching & Assessment

6 Online Blocks of learning over 12 weeks
Live online webinars and tutorials
Independent Study

20 credits = 200 effort hours
At least one study day per 2-week block of learning
Attendance expected at live (synchronous) tutorials and webinars

How to Apply / Disclaimer

To apply for this as a single module as part of your Continuing Professional Development please enter the application system via Professional Development section.

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