
Les infos clés
En résumé
As the baby boomer generation ages, the impacts of alcohol and drug use among this generation will become an increasingly important public health issue. This 5-week course will provide primary care givers and health care providers with an overview of this looming issue and provide strategies for the prevention and reduction of substance use associated harm.
Le programme
- Who is a baby boomer: the aging population
- Introduction to substance use and the older adult
- Prevalence of substance use among those over the age of 50
- Understanding substance use related harm and the older adult
- Acute effects of alcohol
- Substance use disorders in the older adult
- Alcohol and aging
- Long term effects
- Introduction to prevention
- Harm Reduction Model for prevention
- IOM prevention model for substance use disorders
- Intervention perspectives
- Introduction to screening
- Domains of substance use and substance use disorders
- Screening approaches
- Screening and assessment
- Referral to treatment
- Comorbidity
- Self-help support programs
- Care givers
- Maintenance: healthy living and substance use
Les intervenants
- Deborah Finnell - Department of Acute and Chronic Care
- Christine Savage - Department of Community-Public Health
Le concepteur

La plateforme

Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.