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Rural Geriatric Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Explore the unique challenges and opportunities in geriatric education and practice in rural areas. Learn about the Mountain State Partnership Program and how it addresses the specific needs of rural elders. Discover ways to make geriatric care a priority in small towns and rural communities.

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Rural Geriatric Education: Challenges and Opportunities

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  1. Kristina Hash West Virginia University Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education: Flexible and Adaptable Field Education Model Saturday October 29, 2011 8:00 am – 9:30 am

  2. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas West Virginia • 2nd oldest state • Very rural Division of Social Work • BSW & MSW • FT & PT MSW • 5 locations • Rural focus Context

  3. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas Rural Focus Special focus on small towns and rural communities Word of caution “If you have seen 1 rural area, you have seen 1 rural area” -Chuck Fluharty (RPRI)

  4. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas • Rural Focus • Challenges facing rural elders • poverty • limited access to health and human services • geographic isolation and limited transportation • high proportion of chronic illnesses and disability • poor quality housing

  5. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas • Rural Focus • Appalachian culture • self-reliance/distrust of the system • resilience • fatalism • kinship care • patriotism • folk medicine

  6. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas • Mountain State Partnership Program • Focuses on training geriatric specialists in small towns and rural areas • rural geriatric competencies • rural rotations • gero certificate program with rural gero course • (www.socialwork.wvu.edu/certificates/) • Summer Institute on Aging course/conference (www.wvsioa.org)

  7. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas Challenges geographic spread of the students and agencies limited # of placements and FIs with MSWs fewer large health care organizations/limited # of settings for internal rotations limited # of faculty working on the MSPP limited resources for stipends and other incentives

  8. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas Opportunities small, tightly connected state/service community interdisciplinary connections (both academic and community) other gero projects/programs (started with HPPAE and led to BEL, CDI, GEC, & Gero Certificate Program)

  9. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas Our best advice “Make gero a priority…build it and they will come”

  10. www.socialworkleadership.org Small Towns and Rural Areas Questions

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