HC 113 – Ethical Considerations When Working With Older Clients

Overview

Helping professionals (social workers, counselors, nurses, case managers, long term care administrators, and allied professions) that practice in spaces with older adults can experience scenarios that create ethical dilemmas.  For example, identifying the ‘right’ path of intervention when working with a client that is neglectful of their own needs, while considering that same client’s right to self-determination.  Or, representing an agency and their potentially ageist policies and simultaneously, the rights of your older adult client.  In this case-scenario based presentation, we will enhance our understanding about how to shape intervention strategies that uphold the standards of our professions, our agencies, and most importantly, the standards for our clients’ quality of life.

Course Objectives:

1. Relate and reflect on complex, practice scenarios when working with older adults and their communities
   
2. Analyze (and assess for) instances of ageism, abuse, neglect, and more, that impact our practice with older adults and their communities
   
3. Identify ways to negotiate between client goals, agency goals, and the goals of our professions.

Continuing Education Offered:

Social Workers: 2 Ethics CE credits (ASWB ACE, NASW-NJ and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work),
Case Managers: 2 Ethics hours (CCMC), 
Nurses: 2 Contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing), 
Counselors: 2 contact hours (NBCC ACEP and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners)

*For those states requiring/accepting ethics hours for Counselors, 2 ethics hours will be awarded. Otherwise, 2 contact hours will be awarded

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.