Overview
Graduates of this course will be able to apply critical social gerontology knowledge (including bio-pyscho-social perspectives of health and ageing) to their professional practice in working with older people.
They will use critical and reflective skills to act as transformative practitioners, evaluating and initiating improvements in their practice and within their work teams.
They will be able to collaborate across interdisciplinary boundaries, managing multiple perspectives and work effectively within ethical and respectful partnerships with older people, families, professionals and organisations from a variety of settings.
They will be able to evaluate policy and gerontological research and apply this evidence both to their clinical practice and to social issues of ageing.
This course prepares graduates to provide leadership in supporting and promoting the rights, health and wellbeing, and social inclusion of older people within the contexts of both practice and policy leadership within health and aged care services.