Dementia:challenges for social work education in Europe

Dementia has been identified as a global challenge across the spectrum of health and social care (World Health Organisation. (2012) Dementia: A public health priority. Geneva: WHO). This paper will explore the implications of this for social work education and the challenges it poses. There is a lack of this focus on social work with older people and people with dementia (pwd) in social work education. Based on calls for an infusion of content on ageing and dementia in social work curricula, paper proposes that we should adopt a person-centred philosophy alongside gerontological social work competencies to achieve this. The specific aim of this paper, therefore, is to explore how we can use these ideas as teaching tools to engage social work students in the discourse on dementia and to develop appropriate skills to work with pwd, their families and carers

School of Social Work programs accreditation

An accreditation letter confirming that at its June 2013 meeting, the Commission on Accreditation (COA) reviewed the Reaffirmation application for both the baccalaureate and master's of social work programs. The COA voted to reaffirm the programs' accreditation for eight-years through June 2021