GER404 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
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Distance | Albury-Wodonga | Session 2 |
| Distance | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: GER404
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Not for students who have successfully completed GER204
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to critique a range of concepts and theories relating to professional practice with older people
- be able to examine health care and aging in a variety of contexts which extend beyond medical ideology and include sociological approaches
- be able to analyse how ethics, values, language and socially constructed views of aging inform practice within the health care professions and in relation to own practice
- be able to analyse the issues facing older people in relation to health, wellbeing, choice, independence and care
- be able to reflect critically on care issues for professional carers working with older people
- be able to critique the concepts of power, authority and expert knowledge in professional practice with older people and reflect on these in relation to their own practice
- be able to critique participatory and emancipatory professional roles and reflect on these in relation to their own practice
- be able to identify and develop health-promotion practice with older people
- be able to examine issues of significance to family carers and develop collaborative professional practices 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.