1h/weekduring 4 weeks
Starting date: January the 2018
Portuguese (European Portuguese)
materials will be transcribed in to:
English and Spanish
Older adults living in community and their families
No specific qualifications are required to attend the course
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The Post-Graduation in Mobility and Active Aging aims to train professionals to design, develop and implement support, or health and functional independence promotion solutions for persons with reduced mobility or at risk of Mobility reduction, when carrying out their daily activities
The 3Fights @ Edu MOOC is a 1-week program which content activities and interactions are related with the prevention of frailty, falls and functional loss and the promotion of active aging and independent living.
This course is addressed to elderly people and/or their relatives. In general, the content of the course will cover the aging process, life style, behavioural change, frailty, falls, fear of falling, age-related sarcopenia, dismobility, functional decline, signals and symptoms, risk factors, assistance and solutions/strategies in the market and community.
The course requires a commitment of at least 6 hours in specific week (2h/day x 3 days), and consist in watching to video contents (expository videos and/or tutorials, case-studies and interviews), in answering to quizzes and assessments delivered in smaller chunks to help with formative learning, participation in interactive polls and discussion of reflective questions.
Associate Professor
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana
Associate Professor
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Universidade Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Luz Saúde, Portugal
Câmara Municipal de Oeiras, Portugal
The 3Fights@Edu includes partners that represent the primary end-users but institutions with solutions in the area of frailty, falls and functional loss (secondary end-users) will also be invited
The goal of the 3Fights@Edu MOOC course is to improve health literacy about frailty, falls and functional loss in elderly people and to provide relevant educational and informational channels to the main actors of this process: older adults and their relatives
The MOOC intents to provide different tools for self-management of the functional conditions of the elderly people and to sensitize for early identification of those at risk for independent living, as result of functional decline associated with aging.
The 3Fights@Edu MOOC course includes partners that represent the primary end-users but also institutions with solutions in the area of frailty, falls and functional loss (secondary end-users). In this context, the MOOC platform and webpage will accommodate a network end-users.
The MOOC's 3Fights@Edu will run on an Open edX Platform of instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (MOOC Técnico).
The 3Fights@Edu has duration of 1 hour/week (during 4 weeks).
Participants will have opportunity to attend the same course ate November 2017, January and March 2018.
