Design Thinking, Gerontechnology and Innovation

Course Overview

The opportunities for innovation and technologies in the Ageing Society. In this course, we will introduce the state of technologies in the care of older persons in the community. The field of technology has rapidly evolved to provide person cantered approach in improving the quality of life and independence for older persons and their family members. Using innovative thinking tools, students can be better equipped to perform their viable role in the ageing community and empowered by conducive technologies in Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, and more new possibilities to reduce the barriers and improve acceptance to technologies. AI excels in pattern recognition and has successfully broken new grounds in health screening, diagnosis of condition and pharmaceutical support. Ageing is multi-factorial and multi-dimensional over a period of time. It can benefit from fields of informatics in home environment, integrated healthcare systems, consumer level health informatics, nutrition and medication. This course will provide an overview of the expanding field of health informatics to support interdisciplinary needs of researchers, clinicians, carers and policy makers for the ageing community.

Certification Type

• Upon successful completion of this course, you will obtain a Certificate of Achievement
• This course is stackable towards:
  
  Certificate of Accomplishment in Foundational Programme for Community Care Manager
• Other Related Courses:
  
  Basic Nursing Skills

  Change Management and Influencing Skills

  Dementia Care

  Effective Communication and Conflict Management

  Geriatric Care Management

  Infection Prevention & Control and Wound Management

  Multi-disciplinary Perspectives in Gerontology

  Preceptorship Program

  Quality Assurance and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Course Fees

The full course fee is $1,100.00 (before GST).

For learners working in eligible community care organisations (CCOs), the course fee subsidy is as follows: