Synopses & Reviews
Using a multidisciplinary approach to service learning in elder care, Seperson and Hegeman assist students in their actual experience with clients. With this text in hand, a professor can offer students an overview of all aspects of aging, community service, and social policy without putting 40 different articles on reserve.
Part I describes the diverse service-learning experience. Part II provides basic information on aging from demographic, biological, physiological, and psychosocial perspectives. Part III describes a service learning classroom and the many tools a student and a professor can use to maximize the learning in this special kind of class. Part IV is devoted to communication. Here, interviewing, surveying, and oral history skills are defined.
Part V helps the student prepare for the unexpected—what to do when one is actually in a service learning experience with an elder or a group of elders. Part VI is devoted to elder-care policy. Students and their professors will gain a perspective on how to think about and debate issues about aging. Part VII is devoted to case studies of very different service-learning experiences. Following are four comprehensive appendixes, including annotated bibliographies for further reading about service-learning and aging, a code of ethics, and a service learning elder-care manual for implementation of a program.
Review
A thoughtful guide for students and teachers who are contemplating on participating in service learning experiences with the elderly.Sheldon Tobin Professor Emeritus University at Albany, SUNY
Synopsis
Using a multidisciplinary approach to service learning in elder care, Seperson and Hegeman assist students in their actual experience with clients. With this text in hand, a professor can offer students an overview of all aspects of aging, community service, and social policy without putting 40 different articles on reserve.
Synopsis
Makes explicit the connection between coursework and field placement, and elucidates how the policies which the government legislates affect the elderly.
About the Author
SUSANNE BLEIBERG SEPERSON is Professor of Sociology of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York.CAROL HEGEMAN is Director of Research of the Foundation for Long Term Care, Albany, New York.
Table of Contents
Preface
What Is Service Learning?
Basic Information on Aging
The Service-Learning Class
Communication Skills
Doing Service Learning with the Elderly
Elder-Care Issues, Policy and History
Case Studies of Service-Learning Experiences
Appendixes
Index