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Who is providing social services to today's older adults?
— Implications of a survey of aging services personnel | | Author(s) | Andrew Scharlach, Jaimie Simon, Teresa Dal Santo |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 38, no 4, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 5-18 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Social Services Departments ; Personnel ; Social workers ; Training [welfare work] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Characteristics of personnel who provide services to a rapidly growing and increasingly diverse population of older people were examined through a statewide survey of Area Agencies on Aging and county adult and ageing services in California. Substantial gaps were found in the professional education and training of existing personnel, with only 42% of adult protection service workers, 36% of case managers, and fewer than 10% of other personnel having masters degrees in social work. Key barriers to recruiting personnel to ageing services included a lack of qualified and properly educated applicants, inadequate salaries, and insufficient numbers of ethnically diverse applicants. Results illustrate the lack of professional training for workers in services for older people, and the need to develop programmes and incentives for increasing the number of social workers with adequate knowledge and skills in services for older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030515233 A |
| Classmark | PF: QM: QR: QW: 3F: 7T |
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