- Docente: Giorgio Bedogni
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5708)
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from Mar 31, 2025 to May 27, 2025
Course contents
- Health conditions of the elderly population in Italy
- Clinical reasoning in geriatric medicine
- Aging and atypical presentation of disease
- Frailty and functional decline
- Complexity of the elderly patient
- Geriatric syndromes
- Cognitive decline
- Delirium
- Falls
- Sarcopenia
- Common diseases associated with aging
- Pharmacotherapy in geriatric age
- Nutrition in geriatric age
Readings/Bibliography
Roller-Wirnsberger R, Singler K, Polidori MC, editors. Learning Geriatric Medicine. A Study Guide for Medical Students. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2018.
Antonelli Incalzi R, Cesari M, Leosco D, Pedone C, Ungar A, Volpato S. Manuale di geriatria. Milano: EDRA; 2019.
Senin U, Polidori MC, Cherubini A, Mecocci P. Paziente anziano. Paziente geriatrico. Medicina della complessità. Fondamenti di gerontologia e geriatria. Napoli: Edises; 2020.
Halter JB, Ouslander JG, Studenski S, High KP, Asthana S, Supiano MA, Ritchie CS, Schmader K. Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Eighth Edition. McGraw Hill Professional; 2022.
Teaching methods
Classroom-taught lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Course handouts
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Bedogni
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.