Courses - Continuing Care Administration HESA 6325   Continuing Care Administration
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course is designed to enable students to understand and appraise government policies that have shaped the direction of Long Term Care/Continuing Care in Canada with particular emphasis on Nova Scotia; organize and contrast a number of current structures that have been put in place to provide care to seniors; explain the concepts of aging, disabilities, dementia, and the social and medical model of care; and explain, compare, contrast, and critique a variety of issues in Long Term Care/Continuing Care including facility and community based care, leadership styles, aging in place, home care models, living wills/advanced directives and palliative care.