University Diploma in Disability: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Nutrition and Neurorehabilitation

Eating is a basic, highly complex activity of daily living that requires neurological maturity and the development of structures that allow swallowing, which enables proper hydration and nutrition for the individual.

This is why it is essential to assess, diagnose, and monitor the nutritional status of people with disabilities, determining their nutritional needs, formulating dietary prescriptions, conducting periodic intake checks to make adjustments, and evaluating tolerance and the effectiveness of the process.

For the reasons mentioned above, it is important to emphasize the importance of nutritional education for patients and/or their families or caregivers, as well as their participation in the educational and scientific activities of the healthcare team.

Among the treatment goals for addressing disability, it is important to achieve adequate nutritional status that allows for maintaining cardiorespiratory, immunological, motor, and cognitive functions, as well as tissue healing and repair.

A fundamental pillar to consider in treatment is the support and assistance the person with a disability receives from their family, school, and social environment. For this reason, an interdisciplinary team is required, including specialists in nutrition, speech therapy, physiatry, social work, kinesiology, occupational therapy, and psychology.

In many cases, patients may have micronutrient deficiencies due to insufficient intake and/or due to some drug-nutrient interaction that prevents proper metabolism.

This is why health professionals involved in the interdisciplinary team must consider altered calorie consumption, as the eating process is typically slow. This may also present difficulties with motor coordination, thus predisposing to dysphagia.

In other cases, due to an inability to communicate satiety, the child is overstimulated or under-stimulated by caregivers or family members, which can lead to calorie-protein malnutrition or overweight and obesity.

Another equally important point is the frequency with which these patients are rewarded with food; compassion leads to uncontrolled eating, which can be risky. This is probably because food is associated with pleasure and is associated with emotions.

Another aspect worth mentioning is that nutritional status is often overlooked in the treatment of people with disabilities. Rehabilitation and all kinds of activities are often limited by nutrient deficiencies, without taking into account their dietary adaptations and nutritional requirements.

Adequate nutritional status improves health and quality of life, leading to developmental progress, proper wound healing, reduced complications, promoting neurological development, improving growth stimulation, and reducing the frequency of hospitalizations or absences from schools and rehabilitation centers.

We know that these patients are at high nutritional risk, so they require quality nutrition and special care.

Disabilities manifest themselves in varying ways in this group of people, which creates a significant professional challenge in unifying criteria and supporting them throughout the process, ensuring optimal integration into activities and the social environment.

-Develop a comprehensive therapeutic approach, aimed at optimizing the capabilities and functionalities of people with disabilities, to improve their quality of life.

-Generate interdisciplinary strategies to address the therapeutic processes of people with disabilities.

-Promote interpersonal skills by the health team, as a fundamental aspect in the process of accompanying the patient and his family.

-Promote the inclusion of different disciplines, generating the need for their participation in teams caring for people with disabilities.

-Know the importance of different disciplines in addressing the treatment and rehabilitation of people with disabilities

-Assess the nutritional status of people with disabilities as a basic pillar of rehabilitation and interdisciplinary therapeutic approaches.

-Know the scientific evidence on clinical and instrumental examination protocols in the diagnostic assessment stage of each area.

-Assess the psychosocial perspective for the person with a disability, their family, and their context within the neurorehabilitation process.

The Diploma program is offered online. Classes will be combined. Online The course includes asynchronous and synchronous theoretical and practical sessions and activities in the online classroom. A monthly meeting of 4 hours is planned, on Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Timeline: synchronous meetings

Module 1: May 23

Module 2: June 13

Module 3: July 4

Module 4: August 4

Module 5: September 12

Module 6: October 25

Module 7: November 14

TEACHING STAFF

Address: Lic. Andrea Yunes – Lic. Nutrition

Professors:

Lic. Andrea Yunes – Nutritionist

Carla Lazaro, Licensed Nutritionist

Lic. Laura Pesce. Lic. Nutrition

Lic. Nazarena Asus – Nutritionist

Dr. Silvina Pinelli – Physiatry

Lic. María Romina Miranda – Bachelor of Social Work

Lic. Mirian Quinteros –Lic. speech therapy

Lic. Celia Bersano –Lic. Kinesiology Lic.

Alicia Brugo – Psychology Graduate

To. Dina Torossi – Occupational Therapist, Lic.

Argentine Residents $1.125.000

Foreigners US$1.000

Pay mode: Payment can be made by credit card in up to 9 interest-free installments or by debit card in one payment. Argentine residents only.

Foreigners with credit card in 1 payment

La Diplomas It is intended for professionals from various disciplines related to neurorehabilitation and related degree courses.

They can take the Diploma:

• Lic. In Nutrition
• Bachelor's Degree in Speech Therapy
• Physiatrist
• Social Work
• Degree in Kinesiology
• Occupational Therapist
• Lic. In Psychology
• Students in their final year of the aforementioned degree courses

Request information and registration through the following contacts:

posgrado.nutricionriocuarto@um.edu.ar

info.riocuarto@um.edu.ar

Tel: 358-5000648

• • Photocopy of the front and back of the DNI, pdf file.
  • Certified photocopy of the degree certificate.
  • Updated Curriculum Vitae, no more than four pages, and signed. Supporting documents are not required, except for a photocopy of postgraduate degrees (Specialist/Master/Doctor).
  • In the case of foreign applicants, they must present a certificate of functional command of the Spanish language, when applicable.

   

  advanced students of the final year of the degree course

  • Photocopy of the front and back of the DNI, pdf file.
  • Certificate of regular student status proving that you are in your final year