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, able to evaluate and initiate improvements in their own practice, within their work teams and organisations.
They will be able to lead collaborative practice across interdisciplinary boundaries 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 and inform 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 both practice and policy leadership and management of health and social services that support and promote the rights, social inclusion and health and wellbeing of older people.