Aging, Illness & Long-Term Care Concerns

Catalog description

The course will primarily focus on issues that are salient to the aging population, including long -term care. Students will learn skills to help families in all stages of life deal with chronic or ongoing health concerns as well. There will be a strategic training to develop necessary understanding of the challenges of the later stages of life. Students will be required to conduct an in depth interview of one fa mily situation where such issues discussed in the course material are present.