Guia docente 2022_23 Facultade de Fisioterapia

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
- Process of aging and health.	It will treat the thematic related to the physiological, functional, and cognitive changes associated with the aging process and how these changes can drive the development of the prevalent pathologies in elderly people.
- Prevalent pathology in elderly people.	It will treat the thematic related to the prevalent pathologies among elderly people based on the different corporal systems.
- Instruments of assessment of the functional capacity of the elderly people related to different pathological processes.	They will present the main tools used nowadays for the evaluation of the functional capacity of elderly people with examples based on different pathologies.
- Scientific evidence on therapeutic exercise in elderly people.	Presentation of a compilation of the up-to-date evidence on the effect of the therapeutic exercise in elderly people with different pathologies.
- Programs of therapeutic exercise for the prevention and the treatment of pathologies in elderly people.	Presentation, examples, design, and application of different protocols of therapeutic exercise directed to the prevention and treatment of different pathologies in elderly people based on his/her functionality and clinical status.