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Gerontology on the move: is professional education keeping pace?
— proceedings of the 4th National Symposium on Gerontological Education, Research and Practice | | Author(s) | Jocelyn Angus |
| Corporate Author | Lincoln Gerontology Centre, Australia |
| Publisher | Lincoln Gerontology Centre, Bundoora, Victoria, 1996 |
| Pages | 95 pp |
| Source | Lincoln Gerontology Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Teaching hospitals ; Training [welfare work] ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Psychiatric treatment ; Conference proceedings ; Australia. |
| Annotation | This symposium brought practitioners, educators, advocates and consumers together, who were concerned with dealing with attitudes towards ageing and challenging orthodox ways of thinking about education and practice. A major concern was that graduates from the health professions regarded working with older people - the main users of health services - as low on their list of preferences. Innovative approaches to gerontological practice were examined in three workshop sessions: falls prevention and balance; mental health issues and older people; and maintaining health and well-being in the retirement years. These sessions aimed to identify innovative and collaborative models of multi-professional practice, and to use the topics as the context for examining the relevance of current educational curricula to the needs of practitioners. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971007205 B |
| Classmark | BG: V6: QW: CC: D:F:5HH: OLF: LK2: LP: 6M: 7YA |
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