HM4015 - Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End
Course Provider
Certifications
Learning Objectives
Review how the process of aging, frailty and dying unfolds and explain how people experience the end of their lives.
Discuss clinician's ultimate limitations, failures and successes in their efforts to deal with patients as their life draws to a close.
Explain how an elderly person's ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life - all the way to the very end.
Discuss the transformation of nursing homes from "total institutions" which emphasizes only "safety" to a semblance of home that creates a life of worth and freedom for the residents.
Course Offering: Written/printed (enduring)
Domain Focus: Disability and Work Interruption Case Management, Psychosocial Concepts and Support Systems