This postgraduate program is aimed at professionals who have a strong interest in the study and attention to aging processes with a critical and proactive attitude, and who also have:

KNOWLEDGE

• General knowledge for care and intervention with older adults.

SKILLS

• Capacity for comprehension, abstraction, analysis and synthesis of information.
• Basic ICT skills, as well as word processing and database skills.

ATTITUDES AND VALUES

• Self-critical and leadership capacity, creativity and proactive attitude towards the problems related to aging processes.
• Interest in obtaining cutting-edge knowledge in the area of health gerontology.
• Respect for others and the environment.
• Willingness to work in a team and to criticize their academic performance, honesty, loyalty, honesty, responsibility and discipline.

The professional training of the Master in Health Gerontology, graduated from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, integrates knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, for the generation, development, implementation and evaluation of interventions, from an integral, holistic and humanistic perspective, in the fields of biopsychosocial care of the health-disease process of the elderly; family and institutional intervention for the integral health of the elderly; education for healthy aging.

Knowledge

• Generate gerontoprophylactic health promotion strategies for self-care in older adults.
• Design care programs for frail people, based on the degree of physical and/or cognitive dependence, applying different socio-health models that favor the quality of life of older adults.
• Design and develop gerontological preventive services in institutions dedicated to the care of older adults, with special attention to mental and oral health.
• To understand the complexity of the social conditioning factors of the health-disease process, in order to guide their professional performance with ethics and social responsibility, in the different areas: regional, state and national.
• Analyze the official norms and policies for the care of the elderly, for their unrestricted application.
• Theoretical-methodological knowledge to become aware of the civil responsibility that he/she has as a gerontologist in the exercise of his/her profession.
• Design specific actions for the promotion of healthy lifestyles in favor of positive aging.
• Generate training models for intervention at the family and institutional level, primary caregivers and professionals, to promote active and healthy aging.
• To evaluate in a comprehensive manner, allowing the design and application of intervention programs to achieve healthy aging.
• Design and implement specific intervention programs in the different environments and contexts in which the older adult population is found
• Analyze the elements of social support for the elderly, in order to design programs to generate and strengthen institutions for the elderly.
• Adapt intervention programs in the family and socio-community elements of the elderly.

Skills for:

• To develop intervention models and strategies, through an integral and holistic approach, to promote healthy aging.
• To apply the principles of Public Health, Pedagogy, Geragogy and Gerontology, for the formation and training of the population in a healthy aging process.
• Practice the profession based on ethical and bioethical principles to promote the integral health of the elderly.
• Interpret and apply the various models and strategies for comprehensive assessment of the health status of the elderly.
• To apply the models of integral treatment of the individual's health in the process of aging and old age.
• Structure prevention and intervention plans customized to the circumstances of the elderly, in order to develop healthy lifestyles.
• Identify possible sources of support and propose an intervention plan to develop intermediate structures to support the care of the elderly.
• Design accompaniment strategies, in institutional and non-institutional contexts, based on the needs of older adults.
• Develop comprehensive care models to promote healthy aging.
• Implement programs aimed at comprehensive health care for the elderly.
• Use methods and models based on scientific evidence.
• Identify the individual and collective social support needs of older adults, in order to provide care, guidance and follow-up.
• Apply the regulations in the exercise of their profession, taking care of ethical and bioethical principles.
• To develop teaching skills in the disciplinary area that favor biopsychosocial health care for the elderly.
• To develop oral and written communication skills in order to achieve optimal interaction with the environment and implementation of intervention programs.
• To direct with a humanistic perspective the interventions focused on the integral health of the elderly.
• Use methods and intervention models based on scientific evidence.

Attitudes and Values

• Act with humanism and respect for the dignity of the person.
• Act with respect to ethical and bioethical principles in the exercise of their profession.
• Maintain tolerance and patience to attend to the needs of the elderly.
• To have a spirit of service and solidarity with others.
• Multi and interdisciplinary teamwork.
• Develop a critical and proactive attitude.
• To show willingness for self-training and permanent improvement.
• Have initiative and creativity in the performance of their duties.
• Show openness to the culture of self-evaluation and self-criticism.
• Be sensitive to the needs of the elderly.
• Apply ethics and bioethics in the intervention.
• Show respect for life and human dignity.
• Treat others with respect.