Social worker assistance

Social workers assistance with Elderly

By Tammy Stevens on April 22,2016 at 11am

There are many different ages social workers may work with such as elderly, children, and adults. Social workers can help elderly with clinical interventions, service interventions, and advocacy. When doing clinical intervention social workers might provide therapy for their client if they are feeling lonely or depressed. A social worker may have the elderly client do activities like arranging group outings. To help their client cope with aging they might have them record their life story.

Service interventions can provide aid to the elderly client too. The social worker helps their clients apply for appropriate services that they will benefit them and the social worker helps get rid of any unwanted problems in the services that are provided. Geriatric social workers are needed because the amount of elderly people are increasing. 




Advocacy is another way in which elderly can be assisted. Social workers will help stop elderly abuse and is by law mandated to report any suspicious behavior of elder abuse to Adult Protective Services.

According to "aoa.gov" "people age 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in 2000 and are expected to grow to be 19% of the population by 2030, totaling about 72.1 million older persons." This is great news for social workers wanting to work with elderly people. If this population o people are growing more social workers in this field will be needed. 

Taking care of our elders is very important. Social workers help elderly by gathering information about services that are available to them, coordinate care for many health systems, and help them deal with difficult government programs. Geriatric social workers also provide counseling services so the elderly can cope with every day life. According to "griswoldhomecare.com" counseling can make it a lot easier for the elderly to transition from their home to a nursing home or other care. Geriatric social workers can specialize in locating and connecting concrete resources such as: visiting nurse service, hospice care, aide service, transportation, housekeeping, lists of residential care agencies, nursing homes, the local Area Agency on Aging programs.