Postgraduate Major

Gerontological Healthcare

As the global population ages, there is a growing demand for health care professionals with gerontological expertise. Take the next step in your health career and develop in-demand, multidisciplinary skills instrumental to healthy ageing. 

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Overview

Are you a health professional seeking career development in the growing speciality of older peoples' healthcare? Do you want to be seen as a leader in the field of ageing, with skills and knowledge applicable across a range of health care settings?

This major in Gerontological Healthcare is designed to reach the healthcare professional who wishes to develop specialist skills in the care of older adults and expand their leadership pathway in a range of health care settings.

This major will aim to develop excellence in contemporary older person’s healthcare care to meet the professional development needs of graduates interested in ageing studies and evidence-based approaches to practice and policy development.

3 reasons to study Gerontological Healthcare at Murdoch

  1. Study at your own pace with flexible, online learning.
  2. Gain evidence-based skills and strategies that are immediately applicable to your work.
  3. Take a step towards specialising in Gerontological Healthcare practice.

What you’ll learn

  • Appraise all available information to make timely, person-centred, evidence-based decisions to achieve agreed health goals for older persons.
  • Demonstrate effective communication skills and technical research skills to evaluate and synthesise complex information to specialist and non-specialist stakeholders
  • Display safe, caring, respectful, responsive, and therapeutic relationships with older people during health and illness across a range of healthcare contexts.
  • Demonstrate the capability to operate with a high degree of personal autonomy and accountability
  • Design, implement, and appraise health care for older people that ensures quality, safety, and cultural responsiveness.
  • Adapt to working in complex health environments whilst always acting within appropriate professional, ethical, and legal frameworks.
  • Create effective and collaborative interdisciplinary relationships to facilitate implementation of holistic safe health care.

Your future career

As a graduate with a major in Gerontological Healthcare, you’ll fulfil the need for skilled healthcare professionals with an understanding of gerontological issues and complex needs of older people. You may provide comprehensive health care in acute, community or residential settings and assist older people to navigate life transitions in either the private or aged care sectors. Career options may include:

  • Clinical Nurse
  • Nurse Unit Manager
  • Clinical Care Manager
  • Physiotherapist – aged care or community
  • Social Worker – aged care or community
  • Occupational Therapist – aged care or community
  • Facility manager

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Total credit points: 12

Unit code Unit name Credit points
Major12 credit points
SHP501Safety and Quality in Health Care3
SHP502Contemporary Issues in Ageing3
SHP503Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Neurocognitive Disorders3
SHP504Chronic Disease Management and End of Life Care3
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Entry requirements

English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai  and Singapore campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

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Whether you’re a high achiever or have experienced hardship, we offer a wide range of scholarships and awards to students from all walks of life. Explore our scholarships to find the ones you could be eligible for as a new Murdoch student as well as what's available throughout your degree.

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How much will it cost?

Instead of paying an overall course fee, you pay for the individual units you enrol in. The total course cost will vary depending on the units you choose.

Following your successful application, you’ll receive a Letter of Offer which will contain specific course and fee information.

If you are applying for an undergraduate course, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place. Postgraduate programs are full fee paying, unless indicated otherwise in your Letter of Offer.

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