| Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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| Code: | EXPH12-111 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine |
| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
The subject focuses on describing how the ageing process impacts a variety of body systems, function and overall health and well-being as well as the older person’s physical activity and nutrition practices. Students will also gain insight into a range of common age-related conditions and the potential acute and chronic benefits and risks of exercise; as well as common barriers and facilitators for exercise and nutrition for facilitating healthy ageing.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Explain the physical, functional, cognitive, and nutritional changes associated with ageing, including the aetiology, pathophysiology, polypharmacy implications, and nutrient requirements of common age-related conditions.
- Evaluate Australian aged care funding pathways to inform service delivery and client access for exercise physiology interventions.
- Integrate evidence-based behaviour change and self-management strategies into person-centred care plans to address barriers to exercise and nutrition.
- Perform evidence-based assessment and screening processes, including frailty, falls risk, and malnutrition screening, to evaluate older adults across diverse care settings.
- Design individual and group exercise prescriptions for older adults with single or multiple age-related conditions, using evidence-based principles to optimise safety, effectiveness, and functional outcomes.
Enrolment requirements
| Requisites: |
Nil |
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| Restrictions: |
This subject is not available to
This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |