AUT - Older Adult: Health and Wellness
Older Adult: Health and Wellness
This pathway within the Health programmes offers a focused older adults’ health and wellness programme that will appeal to the wide range of practitioners working in health promotion, health maintenance, as well as in acute health care services. A health promotion and rehabilitation focus runs through all aspects of the course. The flexible structure offers opportunity for both discipline specific and inter-professional learning.
Students of the programme will come from a range of professional backgrounds. For example, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech language therapists, dieticians, psychotherapists, exercise scientists, social workers, doctors, podiatrists and oral health practitioners. Because of the applied clinical nature of this programme it is envisioned that during the programme these students will continue to practice within the specialty area of older adult health. Graduates of the programme will be well positioned to take up senior clinical leadership positions within the health service.
Students, provided they meet the entry requirements, can enter postgraduate programmes at the postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma or masters levels outlined below.
Postgraduate Certificate in Health Science in Older Adult: Health and Wellness (AK3484) 60 points
The PgCertHSc provides students with the opportunity to undertake an approved course of study to advance their specialty discipline, knowledge and scholarly development. This programme comprises three 20-point papers, which can contribute 60 points towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science, Master of Health Science or Master of Health Practice.
Student complete papers:
589695 Contexts of Ageing (20)
589696 Interdisciplinary Practice with Older People (20)
SELECT ONE:
588099 Exercise Physiology (20)
588517 Science for Advanced Practice (20)†
588702 Enhancing Muscular Performance (20)
588731 Applied Human Movement Studies (20)
588677 Motor Control in Rehabilitation (20)†
589681 Concepts of Rehabilitation (20)
589685 Participation in Health (20)
589653 Stroke Management (20)†
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science in Older Adult: Health and Wellness (AK3487) 120 points
The PgDipHSc is a coursework programme which can lead into the Master of Health Science or Master of Health Practice. It provides students with the opportunity to undertake an approved course of study to advance their specialty discipline, knowledge and scholarly development. Postgraduate Certificate in Health Science graduates can add two core papers and a speciality paper to complete this postgraduate diploma.
Postgraduate Certificate in Health Science in Older Adult: Health and Wellness papers (60)
AND
SELECT ONE:
588518 Critical Inquiry for Evidence Based Practice (20)†
588631 Quantitative Research Methods (20)†
588639 Qualitative Research Methods (20)†
588632 Integrative Research (20)
SELECT ONE:
588623 Professional Practice (20)†
588644 Practice Reality (20)†
589649 Leadership and Management (20)†
And one approved optional paper (20)
Master of Health Science (AK3485) 240 points
The MHSc provides an opportunity for graduates from a variety of health backgrounds to advance their scholarly and professional knowledge in an inter-professional and collegial learning environment, and to develop research capabilities. This degree comprises core and specialist papers and a thesis or dissertation, which gives students the opportunity to complete research relevant to their programme of study.
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science in Older Adult: Health and Wellness papers (120)
AND:
589690 Thesis (120)
Within this subject area other relevant optional papers may be undertaken with the approval of the Associate Dean Postgraduate. Optional papers may be selected from other relevant subject areas.
† Flexible learning: involves online, block course or distance learning (subject to change)