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Full Stream Ahead: Leading Social Work in Aging Services Evolution

Explore challenges and reinventions facing social workers in aging services. Learn to adapt, specialize with caution, and deliver evidence-informed practices to meet future workforce demands. Avoid becoming over-specialized and focus on evolving practices.

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Full Stream Ahead: Leading Social Work in Aging Services Evolution

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  1. 2014 Aging SummitOn the Road Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. Berkeley Social Welfare

  2. Up Stream Thinking

  3. Doctors  Social Workers

  4. Full Stream Thinking

  5. Challenges ahead Richard Adler’s 7 reinventions: • Health care • Aging services • Housing/long-term care • Community • Retirement • Life stages • Social work’s role

  6. Workforce of the future • Challenge conventional wisdom • Adapt to constant change • Reinvent themselves • Reinvent their institutions

  7. Specialization + caution • In addition, train social workers with: • Deep knowledge of population & context • Ability to deliver evidence-informed practices • But let’s NOT: • Become over-specialized • Train functionaries to fit today’s practice • Chase the money over all else

  8. Full stream aheadOn the road!

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