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Future perspectives

Course
2025-2026

Admission requirements

Bachelor degree and admission to Master Health, Ageing and Society.

Description

The organisation of our ageing society needs innovation. During this course, you will experience the importance of the development of academic skills and the value to be socially connected with older people. Through combining these different perspectives on health, ageing and society, you will get insight in the most important aspects of the master Health, Ageing and Society.

Themes that are included:

  • Connection with the master staff, coordinators and fellow students.

  • Introduction to the societal challenges combining biology of vitality and ageing, the older individual and the organisation of the ageing society

  • Innovation in the field of health, ageing and society

  • Perspectives on becoming older: personal experiences and discussions with older persons

  • Training in academic skills and communication: interdisciplinary cooperation, creative thinking, team roles, writing and presenting.

This course is developed in cooperation with the three educational lines in the masters programme: Communication in Science, Research and Evidence and Academic Development.

Course objectives

The student:

  • is able to place his/her research in the perspective of health, ageing and society

  • is able to present research in a clear and structured manner

  • is able to work interdisciplinary in a professional way, mobilizing complementary skills in teams

  • is able to open up to the perspectives of older people and be aware of the value these perspectives

Timetable

All course and group schedules are published on MyTimeTable.

Mode of instruction

Interactive lectures, working groups and assignments

Assessment method

  • Completion of compulsory assignments described in the assessment plan

  • Active participation

  • The final grade is a pass/fail.

  • Students are expected to be actively engaged in discussion of the content and in the activities scheduled in the programme.

Resit
If an assessment of the course is not passed or completed, the student will get a retake or has to fulfil an alternative assessment.

Reading list

Will be published on Brightspace.

Registration

All students will be automatically enrolled for workgroups.

Contact

Prof.dr. Jacobijn Gussekloo. email: J.Gussekloo@lumc.nl

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