Graduate Diploma in Psychogeriatrics

The demographic reality of the ageing population is accompanied by an increase in the number of elderly people affected by mental disorders. This situation leads to the need for top quality care as well as research into and knowledge of this broad set of disorders.

The Germanes Hospitalàries del Sagrat Cor de Jesús and the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, aware of the growing need to train health professionals in the care of elderly patients with mental disorders, have designed this new Master's degree and Graduate Diploma in Psychogeriatrics to respond to this need.

This programme is aimed at improving habits for the clinical management of geriatric patients. It also seeks to stimulate research interest in a field in which competent professionals are in increasing demand in the face of a clinically complex challenge and first hand care of elderly patients with mental disorders.

Career opportunities

Clinical care work in health centres or installations admitting psychogeriatric patients:
- Old people's homes
- Geriatric hospitals
- Social health centres
- Hospital geriatric units
- General psychiatric units (general hospitals)
- Liaison psychiatry services (general hospitals)
- Psychiatric hospitals: chronic and psychogeriatric units
- Geriatric psychiatry units (general and psychiatric hospitals)
- Mental health centres
- Home care teams (PADES)
- Geriatric day hospitals and Alzheimer's hospitals
- Local surgeries

Internships

- Placements form part of the syllabus and so are mandatory.

- Placement students rotate through the different psychogeriatric units:
Acute Geriatric Psychiatric Unit
Long-Stay Health and Social Care Unit
Medium-Stay Psychogeriatric Unit
Inpatient Convalescence Unit
Inpatient Palliative Care Unit
Dementia Diagnosis Unit (outpatients)
Home Care Team (PADES)
Health and Social Care Day Hospitals (Martorell, Barcelona and Sant Feliu de Llobregat)
Integral Outpatient Assessment Teams (EAIA) specialising in geriatrics and palliative care.
Barcelona-North Multi-Purpose Neuropsychiatry Unit

- This rotation is planned personally with each student at the start of the academic year, taking into account their background, professional experience and preferences together with the availability of the different services and units. Each rotation corresponds to one student only. Exceptionally, in the Dementia Diagnosis Unit, the presence of 2 students simultaneously is permitted.

The placement centres have psychogeriatric care units and form part of the Congregation of the Germanes Hospitalàries del Sagrat Cor de Jesús. They are as follows.

- Hospital Sagrat Cor, Av. Compte de Llobregat, 117. Martorell (Barcelona)
- Hospital Benito Menni, CASM, c/ Antoni Pujades, 38. Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona)
- Hospital Mare de Déu de la Mercé, Passeig Universal, 34-44. Barcelona
- Clínica Padre Menni, Avda. Marcelo Celayeta, 10. Pamplona

Scholarships and financial aid

Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.

Coordinating centres

Departamento de Psiquiatría y Medicina Legal

Collaborating centres

Germanes Hospitalàries Sagrat Cor Martorell

Contact

Manuel Sánchez Pérez

Phone: 937752200

Additional information

http://www.masterpsicogeriatria.com

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