Discuss the barriers to older adults utilizing social services and health care
What will be an ideal response?
Cultural and economic barriers to service utilization include cultural isolation, stigma of using services, confusion, anger at and fear of, healthcare providers and hospitals, lack of trust and faith in the efficacy of service professionals, lack of knowledge of services, and interest in complementary alternative medicine. Structural barriers within the service system include elimination of some public benefits to legal immigrants, lack of ethnic-appropriate services, discrimination, inaccurately translated assessment instruments, geographic distance, lack of transportation, and/or staff that are not bilingual and insensitive to ethnic differences.
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Explain the three components of scientific analysis.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following are benefits of assigning homework after the first contact with a new applicant? I. It may determine the direction of any future interactions II. It may promote the applicant's involvement in the process. III. It may solidify the applicant's intent to return. IV. It may help the case manager complete the intake summary
A) ?I and II B) ?II and III C) ?I, III and IV D) ?II, III and IV
In the case of Carol, the worker in the beginning stage of treatment
a) is fully authentic. b) appears color blind and does not recognize herself as a racial being. c) avoids intellectualized interventions. d) never refers to her own childhood.
Grandparents caring for grandchildren:
a. Are automatically eligible for foster care payments b. Are generally not very good parents, or their children would not have become parents who maltreated their children c. Are often in need of financial and social services from the agency d. Are usually too old to be a placement resource for their grandchildren.