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309.605.01 HEALTH ISSUES FOR AGING POPULATIONS

Term: 1st term
Credits: (3 credits)
Contact: Jennifer Wolff
Academic Year: 2012 - 2013
Course Instructors:
Description:

Provides an overview of issues in health and health care delivery for older persons. Students explore three modules: (1) broad social and policy implications of an aging society (demography, socially defined roles and expectations, disability dynamics and trends, housing and the built environment), (2) clinical issues in aging (aging and geriatric medicine, chronic care, long term care delivery, ethical issues in the health care of older adults, and death and dying), and (3) financial implications (financing of health and long-term care, retirement and economic security, sustainability of entitlement programs for older adults).
Student Evaluation: Student evaluation is based on a paper, presentation, and final examination.
Learning Objective:

To introduce students to a range of health issues that older persons, their health providers, government, and society will confront in the coming decades.
Location: Baltimore
Class Times:
  • Tuesday 1:30 - 2:50
  • Thursday 1:30 - 2:50
Enrollment Minimum: 10
Instructor Consent: No consent required
For consent, contact: jwolff@jhsph.edu
Grading Restriction: Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Catalog Subcommittee Actions: Changed lecture times Mar 2010
Special Comments: First of a series of five courses offered by the School as a concentration in Gerontology for master and doctoral students.