Health Issues Relating To Elderly

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the physical, mental and spiritual issues relating to the health of the elderly. It examines the trajectory of “able-bodied” and disabled aging. Using the issue of “who pays whom for what,” it touches on current health care issues such as “setting limits,” ethics, and managed care. This course explores the “advocacy challenge” which affects human service workers in the area of health care for the elderly.