Assignment: Resources for Older Individuals

Assignment: Resources for Older Individuals

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Assignment: Community Resources for Older Individuals

Volunteers and political officials in local communities often campaign to improve conditions and provide services to increase the well-being of individuals and families living in those communities. If you are the parent of young children, you might focus on improving the local school or creating safe places where children can play. If you are an individual in later adulthood or a caregiver for an individual in later adulthood, what community resources might be important to you? For this week’s Assignment, you evaluate the resources that your local community provides for its older members.

To prepare for this Assignment, research the resources available in your local community to support the issues and concerns of the older population. Note any gaps in these services and consider what improvements might be made to existing services as well as what services should be added.

Submit a 2- to 4-page paper that includes the following:

• A description of the services in your local community that support individuals in later adulthood
• An evaluation of the effectiveness of the services you identified
• A description of service gaps you identified
• An explanation of how to improve existing services
• A description of services that should be added, and why

Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

This site is intended to enhance your use of Community Resources for Older Adults, Fifth Edition, by Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A. Roberto. Please note that all the materials on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the material.

How have programs for older adults evolved? Who uses these resources? How are they delivered? And what challenges do service providers face in meeting the needs of the aging baby-boom generation? Community Resources for Older Adults: Programs and Services in an Era of Change,Fifth Edition, answers these and other critical questions and provides a theoretical framework for understanding the forces that shape older adults’ likelihood to seek assistance. To give students the foundational knowledge they need to meet the needs of their older clients, the authors provide in-depth reviews of the current body of empirical literature in each program area and discuss the challenges programs and services will face in the future.