SPECIALIZATION IN AGING CORE COURSES
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Note: Information related to specific course offerings was obtained directly from departments and course instructors and may change during the academic year. Please check with the pertinent departments or Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology to be sure that specific courses will be offered as indicated.
CORE COURSES
Course: Social Work 790: Introduction to Gerontology G 3 (Cross Listed as Allied Med 790) (Required Course)
Quarter: Fall
Facutly: Virginia Richardson, Ph.D.
It has been reported that one-third to two-thirds of the future workload for most health personnel will consist of caring for older persons. However, health care personnel currently matriculating at The Ohio State University have limited opportunities to discuss gerontologic issues in the context of an aging society and its impact on the health care system. As health personnel find an increasing proportion of their patients to be elderly, a fundamental gerontologic knowledge base will be imperative for those serving an aging society.
This course will describe the physiologic, psychologic, and socio-economic conditions associated with an aging society and examine the impact on public policy from a health professions perspective.
Course: Allied Med 791: Case Studies in Clinical Gerontology (Required Course)
Quarter: Winter
Faculty: Margaret H. Teaford, Ph.D.
Prerequisite: Social Work 790: Introduction to Gerontology or Permission of Instructor)
This course is designed for graduate and professional students who are planning to work with older adults in both community and institutional settings. Students from different disciplines will explore clinical and social issues of an interdisciplinary nature on micro and macro levels. The course is designed to study individual and family issues as well as public policy related to aging. The course primarily uses case studies as a teaching tool for interdisciplinary teams. Classes use a problem-centered, student-centered approach as opposed to straight lectures by the instructor. Professionals working in the field will also participate in class discussion about current problems and inter-agency solutions.
Course: COM&PH 700.04A: Interprofessional Seminar in Clinical Practice U G 3 or 5**
Quarter: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Faculty: Bonnie Kantor, Sc.D. (Contact Linda Mauger at 293-8031 approximately one month prior to quarter to arrange registration and placement.)
(Students may select either COM&PH 700.04A or Social Work 797/Anthropology 820.18 to Complete Core Requirements)
This course is designed to provide graduate and professional students with a transdisciplinary clinical experience participating in the care of older adults. Clinical opportunities will be provided across the continuum of care with a broad variety of health and social service providers. Through this course students will experience the breadth, scope and importance of clinical gerontology in helping older adults function as independently as possible. By combining the skills, knowledge, and perspective of both academic and community health and social service providers, this transdisciplinary course provides students with training to meet the needs of the burgeoning older population. The focus of the course is on obtaining the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for the delivery of services in an interprofessional team setting.
Course: Social Work 797 Research Issues in Gerontology (Cross-listed as Anthropology 820.18)
Quarter: Spring
Faculty: SW 797: Virginia Richards, Ph.D. / Anth 820.18: Douglas E. Crews, Ph.D.
(Students may select either COM&PH 700.04A or Social Work 797/Anthropology 820.18 to Complete Core Requirements)
Research Issues in Gerontology is designed to explore the interface between research and practice issues in gerontology and geriatrics. This will be accomplished by examining evolutionary theories of senescence, the biology of aging, including proximate theories of aging, variation in aging processes, including normative and normal aging, and the genetic and molecular basis of aging. This background will aid in understanding clinical variation in aging, age-related disease, environmental interactions, sociocultural and psychosocial aspects of aging, the demography of aging, and concepts of vitality and frailty. These basis will provide data and ideas for examining research designs, preventions and interventions, life style factors, and clinical aspects of aging and variation across populations and ethnic groups in senescence using a problem-based learning framework.
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