Your assignment for this week requires you to locate and interview a social worker who works with older adults. While older adults do not have to be the only type of client/patient they work with, focus your interview and paper on their experiences working with this population. Be sure to include the following in your written summary of the interview:
- Describe the social worker’s work setting and job title, along with their primary job responsibilities including how how their personal experiences and affective reactions may affect their assessment and decision-making.
- Explain their work with older adults, including the rewards and challenges when working with client strengths and limitations inclusive of the dimensions of diversity as understood as the intersectionality of multiple factors.
- Examine the strategies they use to effectively work in a collaborative manner with other professions when engaged in inter-professional teams.
- Discuss and interpret their encounters with older or dependent adult abuse/neglect situations including how social workers understand frameworks of ethical decision-making and how to apply principles of critical thinking to those frameworks in practice, research, and policy arenas.
- Inquire about the process for mandated reporting of suspected dependent adult abuse/neglect and if there is special training associated with this process.
- Conclude with their advice for successfully working with older adult clients/patients. Do they recommend additional community resources that might be lacking for this population?
Length: 3 pages, not including title and reference pages.
This assignment does not require the inclusion of academic, scholarly resources. But, you still must write it in APA format.
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
