GR 490 - Gerontology Practicum

3, 6, 12, 15 semester hours

Prerequisite: GR 310/MT 310, GR 350/NU 350, GR 390/ PSA 441, GR 231, GR492. Students are assigned to federal, state, and local agencies, health care facilities, and/or community/social welfare programs dealing with an aged clientele for 10 to 15 hours per week. Designed as a cumulative, culminating experience in preparing students to assume advocacy, health care provider, coordination and leadership roles in the provision of services for well and non-well elderly.