The art of caring requires specific and appropriate skills for effective delivery. Elderly people often have chronic health issues and problems that are long-term and continuing. Finding efficient and effective ways to care for the elderly is always an important issue. This course will provide the student, not only the knowledge, but the needed specific basic skills and care strategies to provide integrated care to health problems affecting the elderly.
SOWK085
This course will introduce participants to the fundamental issues of the moral and ethico-legal issues of ageing. It will commence with a basic overview of ethics and ageing. It will then move from the general to the specific, addressing ethics and ageing from a clinical, socio-cultural, policy and individual levels.
SOWK0900
Assessment :
Coursework 40%
Final Exam 60% (face-to-face)
SOWK0901
Assessment:
Coursework - 40%
Final Exam – 60% (face-to-face)
Students must complete SOWK0900 before taking this course
SOWK0903
Assessment:
Course Work - 40%
Final Exam - 60% (face-to-face)
NB: The offering of this in Summer will be dependent on student registration numbers.
Required Text: Development Through The Lifespan,4,5 or 6/edition, By Laura E. Berk
SOWK0905
Assessment:
Coursework - 40%
Final Exam -60% (face-to-face)
SOWK1003
Assessment:
Individual assignment - 25%
Final Exam - 75% (face-to-face)
Students must complete SOWK1001 before taking this course
