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GERO: Healthy Aging

Class Number: GERONT 10544203-1 - GERO: Healthy Aging
Offering Status: Open
Academic Level: Post_Secondary
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Course Description

10-544-203 GERO: HEALTHY AGING ...overview of practices to promote healthy aging. This course will address nutrition, physical activity and prevention practices as well as an overview of medications commonly prescribed for the older adult. Emphasis will focus around the "well" elderly population and practices identified to address current aging trends.

Course Typically Offered

  • Fall
  • Spring

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What will I learn?

  1. Summarize healthy aging
  2. Examine one's own perception of health
  3. Investigate medication use by the older adult
  4. Relate nutrition to healthy aging
  5. Investigate complementary and alternative medicine use by the older adult population
  6. Correlate physical activity to healthy aging
  7. Analyze the importance of preventative strategies
  8. Promote successful aging within home and community.
  9. Explore sexuality and aging

Class Details

Class Number:
GERONT 10544203-1 - GERO: Healthy Aging
Date:
-
Delivery:
Online
Term:
2025 Fall Session 2

Class Notes

This is an Online class that can be accessed anywhere using internet. For more information regarding this delivery and how to access your class, see www.nwtc.edu/onlinefaq.

Meetings Times

Dates Day(s) / Time Location
10/22/2025 - 12/19/2025 Online
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

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