• Conceptual framework
• Developmental implications of ageing trends
• Identification of Policy Options
• Short term and long term planning
• National and Communitarian approach
• Co-ordination and Collaboration
• Needs assessment
• Voluntary and Non-Governmental Agencies
• Policy Evaluations.

JAMIESON, Anne; ILLSLEY, Raymond (Eds.)., CONTRASTING EUROPEAN POLICIES FOR THE CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE, Athenaeum Press Ltd., Newcastle, 1990,  ISBN 1-85628-035-7

TRACY, Martin B., SOCIAL POLICIES FOR THE ELDERLY IN THE THIRD WORLD, Greenwood Press, new York, 1991, ISBN 0-313-26377-9
 
G10 - MEDICAL PROBLEMS IN OLD AGE (Dr.Anthony Fiorini)
 

• Disorders of Homeostasis
• Pressure Sores
• Sleep disorders
• Cardiovascular problems
• Endocrine disorders
• Neurological disorders
• Disorders of the Locomotor System
• Common Infections in the Elderly
• Infection Control
• Disorders of Nutrition
• Oral Diseases
• Investigations in the Elderly
• Speech Problems and their Management
• Eye Problems and their management
• Ear Problems and their management

G11 - INCOME SECURITY FOR THE ELDERLY (Mr.Emmanuel P. Delia)
 

• Income Generation and Poverty Alleviation Programmes: Theory and application
• The Production - Distribution Trade-off
• Income generation problems
• Income-Expenditure Circular Flow Model
• Poverty measurement
• Criteria to run Income maintence programmes: Universal, Liberal, Market-oriented.
• Income Maintenance experiments in developed countries: Work respose, Marital Stability and Family composition, Non-Labour Supply response
• Rising costs and Reconsideration of Welfare Systems
• Impact of funding Welfare programmes
• Policy lessons

G12 - PSYCHOGERIATRICS (Dr.Joseph Spiteri)
 

• Psychiatric Problems
• Psychiatric Assessment
• Behaviour problems
• Paranoid disorders
• Schizophrenic disorders
• Suicide and Parasuicide
• Team management and services
• Remeniscence therapy
• Personality aspects of old age
• Neurotic disorders
• Dementia
• Manic Depressive psychosis
• Acute and Chronic organic brain syndromes
• Psychotropic drug treatment.

G13 - PROGRAMMES AND SERVICES - INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
                                   (Dr.Joseph Troisi)

• Community Care
• General Hospital Care
• Specialised Hospital Geriatric Care
• Nursing Services
• Occupational Therapy Services
• Institutional Care
• The Development of Geriatric Services
• Housing and the Environment
• Urbanisation
• Building Types
• Family Support
• Social Welfare and Services
• Employment
• Education
• Income Security Programmes

Recommended Readings: ATKINSON, A.B.; and REIN, Martin, (Eds.), AGE, WORK AND SOCIAL SECURITY, St.Martin's Press, New York, 1993, ISBN 0-312-08548-6
BYTHEWAY, Bill; and JOHNSON, Julia, (Eds.), WELFARE and the Ageing Experience, Athenaeum Press Ltd., Newcastle, 1990, ISBN 1-85628-102-7
 
 HUGMAN, Richard, AGEING AND THE CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN EUROPE, St.Martin's Press, New York, 1994, ISBN 0-312-12193-8.
 

G14 - DRUGS IN THE ELDERLY  (Ms.Therese Bellia)
 

• Biopharmaceutical and Pharmacokinetics on drugs in the Elderly
• Changes in Pharmacodynamics in the Elderly
• Adverse drug reactions and interactions in the Elderly
• Compliance in the Elderly
• Therapeutic care of the bowels
• Treatment of the elderly diabetic
• Drugs used in Pain, Arthritis and Parkinsonism
• Cardiovascular drugs in the Elderly
• Drugs used in Depression
• Hormonal replacement therapy and prevention of bone fractures in elderly females
• Management of Prostrate problems in elderly males
• Improving drug use in the Elderly.

G15 - SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE ELDERLY (Mr.Louis Minster)
 

• Problems the Elderly encounter
• Outreach programmes
• Assessment skills
• The skills of communicating with the Elderly
• Identifying and working with the elderly abused client (household and institutional)
• Skills in running a Day Centre Programme
• Casework recording skills
• Enabling the Elderly to function more adequately
• Using the Health Care Services effectively
• Enlarging the Social Service Programmes for the Elderly
• Skills in understanding and coping with bereavement.

G16 - EPIDEMIOLOGY (Dr. Julian Mamo)
 

• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Use of Epidemiology in Ageing
• Distribution in time, place and person
• Sources of Data: I Routine
•                II Surveys
• Cases and Populations
• Research Methods
• Steps in Survey Design
• The Literature Review
• Measurement Tools
• Critique of a Paper
• Epidemiology and Public Health
• Strategies for Prevention

G17 - STATISTICS AND COMPUTING (Mr.Francis Curmi)
 

• Collecting data through interviews, questionnaires and published data
• Summarising and presenting data by tabulation, diagrams and graps
• Analysing data: Mean, Median and Mode, Standard Deviation and Variance,Coefficient of Skewness
• Probability: Basic Concepts including the Additive and Multiplicative Rules
• Probability Distributions: Binomial, Normal and Poisson Distribution
• Sampling Theory: Types of Sampling Methods
•                  Estimation using Confidence Intervals for Means
•                  The Sample Size
•                  The "t" distribution for small samples
• Tests of Hypothesis: Two-tail and One-tail Tests
• Testing a Sample Mean; Type I and Type II Errors; the Chi-square Test, Contingency Tables
• SPSS: Its commands for defining the survey data; Its use to obtain statistical results and for testing hypothesis.