Employment
Opportunities
Activities of
professionals who work directly with older
adults:
- Developing programs such as health promotion, senior theater
groups, or intergenerational activities for older adults in senior
centers, community agencies, or retirement communities.
- Providing direct care to frail, ill, or impaired older adults
in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, or through adult day care or
home care programs.
- Counseling older adults and their families about issues of care
giving, employment, death and dying, or mental health.
- Advising older clients about estate planning and investments,
financing long-term care, or housing options.
Activities of professionals who work
indirectlywith
older adults:
- Conducting research on the aging process and diseases
associated with aging, such as Alzheimer’s disease or
osteoporosis.
- Analyzing issues related to older adults, such as retirement
opportunities, income maintenance, the health care system, and
housing alternatives.
- Planning, administering, and evaluating community-based
services and service delivery systems for older adults.
- Teaching courses on aging to college and university students,
health care professionals, and older adults.
- Advocating with or on behalf or older adults before legislative
bodies or in institutional settings.
- Designing products to meet the special interests and needs of
older persons.
- Advising business, industry, and labor regarding older workers
and consumers.
Where do aging
specialists work?
- Community, human services, and religious organizations
- Health care and long-term care institutions
- Federal, state and local government agencies
- Retirement communities
- Academic and other educational and research setting
- Professional organizations
- Business and industry
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