This course provides in-depth and up to date information about Geriatrics Physical Therapy covers Implications and Physiology of Age-Related and Lifestyle-Related Decline.  These will include the impact of aging on different systems e.g. (the cardiovascular, pulmonary, the Musculoskeletal, and the central and peripheral nervous systems). This course will provide the student with the components of a patient medical history and principle of geriatric assessment according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

         This course will review the physiological principles of exercise including bioenergetics, energy expenditure, functions of the cardiovascular, pulmonary, neuromuscular and neuroendocrine systems, and the impact of training, environmental factors, ergogenic aids, nutrition, and body composition on exercise.