SW 686 - Social Work Practice With Older Adults

3 Credit(s)

This course seeks to explore challenges facing older adults in the larger society. The student is challenged to increase their cultural competency/cultural humility of the older adult community and to develop a perspective that is sensitive to older adult issues. History, current events, scholarly literature, person-in-environment theory, life-cycle stages, interventions, policy, practice skills, and advocacy will all be used for a holistic reflection of being an older adult in today’s society.