DU Personne âgée - Réseaux de soins - Prise en charge institutionnelle (gérontologie) at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

Programme overview

The DU Personne âgée - Réseaux de soins - Prise en charge institutionnelle (Gérontologie) gives the knowledge and tools to care for frail older people and to navigate territorial arrangements and institutional actors in care pathways.

Faculty: UFR de santé, médecine et biologie humaine | Duration: 1 year | Intake: January | Study mode: Continuing education; taught in French | Location: Villetaneuse, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

125 hours: 90 of theory and a 35-hour placement across 5 seminars from January to June (two consecutive days a month, Monday and Tuesday). Module 1 covers the older person (normal ageing and disease, psychology, nutrition, sensory conditions, skin and pressure ulcers, dementia, memory, behaviour and depression, strokes and falls, continence, emergencies); module 2 covers demography, epidemiology, care networks and institutional care.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Medical, paramedical, socio-educational professionals and others working in older-person care; enrolment authorised on file by the DU teaching committee.

EUR 450 a year (2025/2026). Training fee (frais de formation). Students in initial education this year and graduates of under 2 years (preferential rate). University user fee (droits d'usagers) of 254 EUR is charged in addition and is not included. Source

Intake: January

Duration: 1 year

Apply through the official page: https://ecandidat.univ-paris13.fr/ecandidat

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