Designed for upper-level undergraduate students with an interest in aging. Open to upper-division undergraduates and beginning graduate students interested in gerontology. Borgatta Interdisciplinary examination of the contemporary theoretical literature on gerontology and long-term care. For upper-level undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in aging. Quarterly offerings available from the Institute on Aging.
Students function as an interdisciplinary learning group within a problem based learning framework.
The primary goal of the course is to promote the development of interdisciplinary practice in the care of urban and rural underserved patient populations. Health professionals' roles in dealing with social, cultural, and physical barriers to health care of low-income groups and ethnic people of color. Personal involvement through field experiences and faculty drawn from affected communities as well as health sciences, social work schools. Students develop an organizational model for rural health care and study innovative ways of mobilizing community resources and support for a comprehensive rural health-care system. Pharmacy students, nurses, and other health professionals study application of theory in an appropriate clinical setting within the conceptual framework of each student's professional field.