Risk Assessment and Strengths Based Case Management in Elderly Care– Scope of Social Work Practice

Risk Assessment and Strengths Based Case Management in Elderly Care– Scope of Social Work Practice

Social Work

Case Management

Risk Assessment

Strengths based approach

Elderly

Risk Management

Social workers have a significant role in ensuring the wellbeing of older people. Social work brings a range of specialized skills and methods of interventions in improving the quality of life of older adults. Conducting proper assessment is an important task of social workers while engaging in the provision of support services. In contrast to the ubiquitous deficit-based assessments, strengths-based assessments provide social work practitioners with methods to assess strengths and abilities and thereby develop strengths-based interventions. Though risk-assessment is necessary to prevent problems occurring, understanding clients’ strengths is an integral resource in the helping process. Assessments giving equal importance to risks and strengths are inevitable in formulating and implementing specific activities to facilitate their independent living in the community. This paper highlights the significance of biopsychosocial assessment, risks/strengths assessment and strengths-based case management of older adults. This paper also presents an inventory of risks and strengths reported by older adults who attended case work and counselling sessions with the author during her role as a social worker in a multidisciplinary community health care setting in Australia.

K, Minimol

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 15 No. 2 (2016): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 121-133

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0975-329X

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

2016-04-01

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