This comprehensive text spans the new knowledge and skills required in direct practice
areas, group work, and macro practice. It also outlines the Geriatric Social Work
Competencies, as developed by social work educators, necessary to serve the older adult
population and suggests how these competencies can be integrated into foundation
curriculum.
Social work educators, students, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers will
find updated, useful information in this text regarding
- assessment tools
- cultural influences
- evidence-based practices
- intervention techniques
- theoretical examples.
“Individuals are living longer and healthier lives in part because of the
extraordinary growth of biomedical knowledge and public health initiatives. The confluence
of the rapid and large increase of the older population and the exponential increase in
the dissemination of knowledge create an imperative for social workers to employ the most
recent knowledge in their practice with people living increasingly long lives.”
JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez
Department of Social Welfare
University of California, Los Angeles |
