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NASW Annual Practice Conference “The Aging Boom: Is Your Clinical Practice Ready?” provides a forum to learn from professional programs and expert presenters, to network with their peers, and to talk with sponsors about cutting edge products and services that benefit their clients and communities. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is one of the largest organizations of professional social workers in the world, including from hospitals and other health care facilities, government and community agencies, nursing homes, academia, businesses, and private clinical practice.
The NASW invites social workers to join the conference, which will have sessions on the themes, such as: A Forgotten People: Suicide in Older Adults, Aging and Dementia, Aging in Place, Collaborative Case Management: Opportunities and Challenges, Criminal Justice Social Work: Service Delivery to Recently Released Offenders Over 55 Years Old, Dying Well, Elder Abuse, Fraud and Financial Exploitation, Key Challenges in the Aging Boom: Honoring Diversity in Older Adults, Malpractice and Risk Management in Multi-Generational Practices, Medicare Documentation and Reimbursement in the Clinical Setting, Menacing Myths and Reasonable Reality as We Age as Sexual Beings, Mental Health Response to Catastrophic Events: The Unique Needs of Older Adults and Lessons Learned After a Disaster, Our Aging Population: Disability Issues and the Need for Employment After Retirement, Practice with Older Adults Who Have Cancer: Addressing Concurrent Psychosocial Challenges, Seniors Gambling and Other Addictions: What You Need To Know, Social Work Interventions with Adults who Hoard: An Integrated Practice Model, Special Ethical Considerations When Working with Older Adults, This Is Not a Test: The Critical Role of Social Workers in the Age Wave, We Don’t All Age the Same: The Unique Needs of LGBT Seniors, What Older Holocaust Survivors Can Teach Us About Forgiveness, Where the Rubber Meets the Road: The Future Supply of and the Demand for Aging Expertise, etc.
Organizer
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
