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Paper Presentation

Gero-Ed (Aging and Gerontology)

Session: Helping older adults: Pre- and post-test intervention

Using Professional Mentors to Influence Social Work Students to Work With Older Adults

Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2504B
This presentation describes a study aimed to understand whether adding a guest speaker working in the field into weekly content would influence students' (N=17) attitudes about working with older adults. These findings have important implications for workforce planning and interventions to attract social workers to work with older adults.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Upon completion, the participants will be able to understand the current need for social workers working in the aging workforce
  2. Upon completion, the participants will be able to discuss how they can utilize professional mentors in their curriculum to expose students to the aging workforce.
  3. Upon completion, the participants will be able to compile a list of 6 professional mentors they can include in at least one of their course designs to help students think about careers in aging.