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Lynch, Raven E.; Meshelemiah, Jacquelyn C. A.; Casassa, Kaitlin – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
Social work field placements are considered the signature pedagogy of the social work profession. Traditionally, students are placed in a single agency for the academic year. Given that antitrafficking intervention is fairly new to the social work profession, interns may not be able to get the most out of an experience in a single agency. Using…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Teaching Methods, Student Placement
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Auais, Mohammad; Cameron, Julie; Turnnidge, Jennifer; Dalgarno, Nancy; Kolomitro, Klodiana; Pelland, Lucie – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: To describe the creation of an educational podcast with 'living cases' of older adults to support students' learning on a gerontology course and report on students' evaluation of the project. Setting: Gerontology course in a graduate programme. Method: We developed a podcast series based on interviews with older adults in the community…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Gerontology
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Scerri, Anthony; Schembri, Patrick – Educational Gerontology, 2022
In view of population aging, more older persons are being admitted to acute hospitals. However, the level of care that older people receive is suboptimal. Nurses' negative attitudes and inadequate level of knowledge strongly influence the level of care. The study sought to explore medical and surgical nurses' knowledge and attitudes related to…
Descriptors: Nurses, Aging (Individuals), Hospitals, Older Adults
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Lee, Kathy; Richardson, Virginia E. – Educational Gerontology, 2020
Seasoned geriatric community health workers offered valuable data that will inform educators and community health workers working with older persons. Geriatric community health workers' views about retirement and about facilitators and barriers that keep them engaged with older adults during retirement were identified. Twenty geriatric community…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Educational Gerontology, Aging (Individuals), Public Health
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Boscart, Veronique M.; Crutchlow, Lauren; Taucar, Linda Sheiban; Schelling, Sandra; Fung, Elliott; Betini, Raquel S. D.; Heckman, George; Hirdes, John – Educational Gerontology, 2019
Home care workers deliver care services to community-dwelling seniors across Canada, but home care workers' variable education and unfamiliarity with assessment data systems can impede client-centered care. This pilot study therefore examined the effectiveness and feasibility of five educational modules on geriatric care, developed with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Health Aides, Older Adults, Geriatrics
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Dassel, Kara; Butler, Jorie; Telonidis, Jacqueline; Edelman, Linda – Educational Gerontology, 2020
We developed online training modules focused on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) designed to improve best care practices in long-term care settings, such as nursing homes, as a part of a federal grant focused on improving geriatric education for interprofessional (collaboration among different professions providing patient care)…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Dementia, Health Services, Best Practices
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Goller, Michael; Steffen, Bianca; Harteis, Christian – Vocations and Learning, 2019
Although nurse aides take on a high share of care activities in nursing homes, almost nothing is known about how they develop the knowledge and skills to do so. This study attempts to close this research gap by answering the following research questions: (1) How do novice aides learn and develop and how is their learning trajectory structured? (2)…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Nursing Homes, Workplace Learning, Curriculum Development
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Kuba, Ruchika – Journal of Learning for Development, 2021
COVID-19 provided an opportunity to experiment with alternative delivery mechanisms for a medical education programme offered through open and distance learning with face-to-face training as an essential component of the programme. Non-availability of hard copies of the course material (92%) and lack of communication from the university (32%) as…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Online Courses, Distance Education, Graduate Medical Education
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Alex, Deepa; Kumari, Yatinesh; Kadirvelu, Amudha – Education Sciences, 2021
A rapid demographic transition to aging populations is imminent over the next decade, especially in Southeast Asian countries. An aging population presents a host of medical challenges, such as multimorbidity; chronic illnesses; and geriatric syndromes, such as frailty, falls, dementia, and incontinence. In order to tackle such issues efficiently,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Learning Modules
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Hirofumi Ando – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
As one of the super-aged countries, Japan is facing serious social and economic implications of the rapidly increasing elderly population while the working population is decreasing. This has created tremendous burden not only on the Government of Japan but also on the local administrative units like Kobe City to provide adequate health and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Aging (Individuals), Geriatrics
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Mori, Junko; Shima, Chiharu – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
The current study examines how Japanese and international care workers at a geriatric healthcare facility in Japan manage one of the most fundamental elements of handover interactions -- person reference and recognition to identify a particular care receiver and discuss their specific conditions and needs. By using Conversation analysis (CA) as a…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Geriatrics, Health Services, Discourse Analysis
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Hultqvist, Sara – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Collaboration between academia and actors outside academia (AOAs) has been proclaimed as a way for society to confront challenges in different fields. This 'participatory imperative' is anchored in EU research policy. The paper explores the participatory imperative in contemporary Swedish aging research. Three kinds of motives for participatory…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Professional Identity
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Pérez-Jorge, David; Barragán-Medero, Fernando; Herrera-Hernández, Juan Manuel; Falcón-Chueca, Selene – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
The evaluation results of the Orthogeriatric Unit at Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Hospital, Tenerife, Canary Islands, are set out in this paper. The fundamental aim has been the assessment of comprehensive rehabilitation and the improvement of quality of life, which would allow a faster discharge process for patients over 65 years of age. A…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Programs, Health Services, Program Evaluation, Geriatrics
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Holdsworth, Jason K.; Arun, Özgür – Educational Gerontology, 2017
While there are various approaches to gerontological and geriatrics (and social sciences) education globally, a component commonly included in undergraduate education is a final thesis project. In Turkey, the Department of Gerontology at Akdeniz University has undertaken a unique approach to thesis development that values and draws on accessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Theses, Gerontology
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Bulgarelli, Alexandre F.; Toassi, Ramona F. C. – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This study was developed to show a professor's perspective to comprehend his difficulties and challenges, within a different scenario and culture of teaching geriatric dentistry in a nursing home. It was a self-analysis theoretically supported by the Social Constructionism and the Interpretative Autoethnography perspective. Data were constructed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Geriatrics, Health Education
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