Social Work Practice with Older Adults

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The course provides a clinical foundation for clinical social work practice with older adults and their families. Primary focus will be on understanding how diversity factors into the physiological, psychological, and social aspects of later life. Students will have the opportunity to develop the skills for completing multi-dimensional assessments and developing effective social work interventions with and on behalf of older adults. Focus will also be on the older adult not only as an individual but within the family and within other social systems.