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2025 Spring > GRAD > GERON GR > GERON GR 650

Service Delivery Issues in Aging

Course #: GERON GR 650

Description:
This course focuses on the links between consumers and aging services in organizational settings with well-developed formal services. The aim of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the structural problems that underlie the challenges that consumers face in using formal services. The course covers a wide range of services that older people may need, the complementary relationship between formal and informal services, boundary issues among service specialties and service professionals, service coordination and integration, and the role of both consumer direction and professional case management in negotiating service systems.

Section Class Number Schedule/Time Instructor Location
01 10659 M|
7:00 - 8:00 pm| -
Birchander,Ellen On-Line LMS Chat Time
Session: Spec Prg1
Class Dates: 01/27/2025 - 05/14/2025
Capacity: 20
Enrolled: 0
Status: Open
Credits: 3/3
Class Notes:
Pre Requisites:
Course Attributes:
01 10659 M|
7:00 - 8:00 pm| -
Birchander,Ellen On-line course
Session: Spec Prg1
Class Dates: 01/27/2025 - 05/14/2025
Capacity: 20
Enrolled: 0
Status: Open
Credits: 3/3
Class Notes:
Pre Requisites:
Course Attributes: