Some client groups require special sensitivity by the social worker. For example, unique insight and understanding is required to help a client deal with the devastating impact of poverty, to serve a client who has been battered by a spouse, or to carefully assist a client who is at risk ...
Because of aging populations and falling birth rates, public pensions are an increasingly important policy issue. Most governments have some type of tax-and-transfer system, with payments to the elderly being financed by levies on workers. Such systems are mathematically feasible when there are lots...
Lieberman argues that systems to be designed for EUD “must be easy to understand, to learn, to use and to teach” by the user [58]. In our study, then, care workers should be able to use and program the robot in a way that allows it to become their assistant for routine tasks. ...
Jean Rodriguez, who's 73-years-old, told us her retirement checks had been withheld for the past two years. A former school cafeteria worker, she started receiving benefits in 2014. But four years later, she and her husband Glenn were asked to come to the local Social Security...
“I have found joy in my job as a hospice social worker,” says Judy. “In fact, my first week on the job, I coordinated a wedding on the unit. I arranged for decorations and a chaplain to officiate at the bedside of an elderly couple who had been together fo...
A social worker stated that this "leaves older refugees begging for private donations or seeking treat- ment in Syria." So, older Syrian refugees suffering from health problems, such as cancer, were often forced to go on dangerous journeys back to their war-torn country where they could ...
“It is sometimes a problem when we have new staff from foreign backgrounds, because in their cultures they are used to doing everything for the elderly as a sign of respect. We have to teach them not to do that here,” Jette, an experienced staff member, told me, referring to newly ...
We arranged financial advisors for each of the 8 towns in Linping District. Based on the Jinfubao MSME Loan platform, we customized innovative products such as Linping Inclusive Digital Loan and Linping Self-employed Worker Digital Loan according to the operations, financial statements, and ...
Despite the growing interest in using robots in elderly care, there is still little experience with these robots in real care settings—particularly h
The program is designed for students to tailor a curriculum to match their career goals, whether that is working with young children, adolescents, adults or the elderly. Students may attend full or part-time and take classes on a campus or center or online from anywhere in the world. A ...