GER204 Aging and Professional Practice (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Human Services (HUSER)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
Individual narratives of aging introduce an examination of the Australian context of health and aged care in which the bio-medical and social models of health care are critiqued. The concepts of social construction of aging and emancipatory practices lead to examination of a range of practitioner roles relevant to practice with older people and encourage the development of reflective practice skills. A range of health and wellbeing issues of aging (including identity, decision-making, mental health, dementia, grief and loss) are examined from the perspectives of the professional, the aging person and the family carer.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
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| Distance | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: GER204
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to utilise various concepts and theories relating to professional practice with older people
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of health care and aging in a variety of contexts which extend beyond medical ideology and include sociological approaches
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of how ethics, values, language and socially constructed views of aging may inform practice within the health care professions
- be able to recognise and examine the complexity of issues facing older people in relation to health , wellbeing, choice, independence and care
- be able to reflect critically on issues of power, decision-making and control in relation to their own practice as professional carers working with older people
- be able to identify participatory and emancipatory professional roles and begin to reflect on these in relation to their developing practise
- be able to identify and develop opportunities for health-promotion in relation to practice with older people
- be able to identify issues of significance to family carers and consider collaborative practices of professionals which enhance carers wellbeing as well as that of the older person
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
Narratives of Aging Health Care and Aging - Social Model of Health - Social constructions of Aging - Australian Health and Aged Care service systems Professional Practice with Older People - Values, attitudes and Ethics - Professional care - roles and power dimensions - issues of aging for practitioners - bereavement and loss, dementia and depression, the needs of carers.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.