This course teaches the professional handling of swallowing disorders (dysphagia): understanding the swallowing process and its disorders, recognising signs and the risk of aspiration, adapting food consistency (thickening, puréed food), designing the eating and drinking situation safely (positioning, assisted feeding, pace), understanding the decisive importance of oral care for pneumonia prophylaxis, administering medication safely, weighing ethical questions (tube feeding) and cooperating with speech and language therapy – for safe, dignified eating and drinking.
Course objectives:
- Understanding swallowing disorders (dysphagia) and their significance
- Recognising signs and the risk of aspiration
- Adapting the food consistency safely
- Designing the eating/drinking situation safely and with dignity
- Using oral care for pneumonia prophylaxis
- Weighing ethical questions (tube) and cooperating with speech and language therapy
Self-study without supervision, assignments or assessment of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.