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• Ageing throughout history in the world and in Slovenia;
• Ageing and theories of ageing;
• Starting points for the use of the most common theories of nursing care of the elderly;
• Physiological changes of organ systems in old age;
• The most common chronic illnesses in old age;
• Health care of the elderly after the process method of work (development of nursing diagnoses for nursing the elderly, planning nursing activities, evaluation and documentation);
• Methods and particularities of communicating with the elderly;
• Treatment of the elderly with dementia and other mental disorders;
• Categorization of the elderly according to the complexity of health care;
• Ethical aspects of gerontological nursing care;
• Ensuring security and autonomy of the elderly;
• Possible forms of violence;
• Palliative care of the elderly;
• Death and dying;
• Forms of care of the elderly in Slovenia;
• Active ageing;
• Intergenerational relations;
• Good life in old age
• Legislative rights in old age.