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Ageing and Informatics

Name: Ageing and Informatics
Price: 1461 SGD

Training Provider: Singapore University of Social Sciences

Course Reference: TGS-2024047302

S$1,461

About This Course

Discuss concepts and trends of health informatics and technologies in Ageing.
Distinguish the use of suitable informatics technologies to better manage the conditions of diseases, chronic illness for seniors.
Develop community-based activities incorporating seniors’ feedback in the design and implementation of effective eHealth interventions.
Analyse the latest developments in the field of physical activity and evaluate the practices and trends to apply in present contexts.
Appraise the privacy and ethical issues in use of health informatics for seniors and their caregivers.
Examine appropriate health information and assessment strategies in creating interactions with the seniors on various technology platforms.

What You'll Learn

GER401 Ageing and Informatics examines the state of health informatics in the care of seniors and the state of technology in this field. The field of information technology has evolved to cover topics of enhanced interest in Artificial Technologies (AI) through Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) which offer new possibilities to field of ageing. AI is smart technologies in pattern recognition and has successfully broken new grounds in healthcare for cancer diagnosis and pharmaceutical areas. 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.