Publication
The Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW), located at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), formed a collaborative partnership with Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley (ESMV), a large urban Area Agency on Aging (AAA) near Boston to design, implement, and evaluate an innovative model program of agency-based training for practicing social workers. The collaboration facilitated and strengthened the development of a program that benefited the university-based program and the community-based agency.
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Policy Brief
The discipline of social work must respond to calls for evidence-based practice and for demonstration of its effectiveness in providing psychosocial care. Achieving this goal, along with the identification of key resources and challenges, was the subject of the conference. The resulting blueprint is described in this brief.
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Publication
This article reviews the challenges facing the profession in transferring practice skills to social workers and describes the strategies of the Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) that address them.
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Publication
This article summarizes a research study that has integrated a social worker within the primary care setting in order to expand upon a tested evidence-based practice for depression to a population-based social work intervention, which also includes care management.
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Policy Brief
Despite the perceived need for geriatric social workers, the National Association on Social Work statistics suggests that slightly less than five percent of members identify aging as their primary practice area—a figure that has remained unchanged for over a decade. Currently, an opportunity exists within the social work profession to address the critical shortage in geriatrics-prepared social workers.
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