PART # I

1.) What is the video about?
     This video is about  some of the challenges social worker has to and must face on a daily basis.  They deal with all types of situations and issues.  They help locate safe permanent housing  for elderly coming out of nursing home or help keep them in their own  independent living homes which includes often home visits by the workers.  Social Workers also have to deal with older adults that has mental issues that needs care 24/7 but refuse any services from outsiders.  This is when the workers hands are tied because under the "Mental Capacity Acts" as long as the person is able to talk for themselves and refuse services, the worker cannot over rule them.
     Social Workers have to check-up on their senior older adults often on their  treatment they are receiving from their caregiver and how well they are getting alone at the location they are living.  Workers help get senior older adult into a place called "Extra Care" which is a place when they can no longer live in their home and this keeps them out of a nursing home.
      
2.) What are the key messages for practice?
       This video dealt with case planning assessment as well as care planning assessment and what is best for the senior older adults outcome also their caregivers plays a very importance part and role in their treatment.  It shows how professional social workers is always promoting social change in older adults as it relates to and enhance their well-being.  Social Workers do all they can to help keep senior older adult independence by working with them and their family members.  Also the key messages is truly team work, everyone must work together and become as one.  Social Workers must be diverse in their roles which includes but limited to becoming a case manager and being a advocate for the older adults. 

                                                                       PART # 2
 I see myself applying everything I have learned into my Social Work Professional Practice Skills.  I now have gained knowledge in what is expected of me as a Social Worker Professional when I go out into the field as I work with the Gerontology population.  I don't know everything but I am willing and will learn much, much more about what I am going to face  and what I should and should not do in my field of expertise as a social worker.        
              
       
       
          

1.) List 3 things you learning this week and how do you see yourself using these things in your practice as a social work and or as a professional.
2.) What  was your Weebly development experience like and how do you think you could have improved it?  Did you develop any new skills?  Did you use any of your social work skills in creating the site?

1.) I learned the word "Ageism" just like any other "ism" is such a horrible word to use when it comes to labeling  our older adults.  It falls under the discrimination and the prejudice laws.  Older adults are always being stereotype against one way or another.
I learned don't take older adults for granted and don't always try to do their thinking for them when they can mentally think for themselves and make their own decisions because they are up there in age.
I learned, all older adults do not think or act the same.  You do have some very smart and sharp older adults, a lot more sharper than some young/younger people that's walking around in today's society.  Some of them up in age are up on their toes and right on point and key when it comes down to taking care of their/any business.  They are able to adapt to changes, they do not want to live in a nursing home, they would rather stay in their own home.

I see myself using all of the information and knowledge I have learned and apply it in my daily work as a professional social worker.  Knowing what I learned in the first 34 pages in the book of Key Concepts in Social Gerontology will always follow me.
2.) My Weebly development experience was not bad at all except voicethread which I had no idea what I was doing or how to do it.  Maybe learning more about voicethread would be indeed an improvement for me.  Yes, I did develop a new skill, in "voicethread".  Yes, I did use my social work skills In creating.      

       I learned and was a little surprised to read that the  elderly still thinks about and are still having sex.  I was also very surprised to read "Lisa Ling states it was told to her that senior even talked about a threesomes".  I mean really a threesome, that unbelievable that seniors would even think such a thing.  I guess you really can't underestimate seniors anymore!  Seniors feel as long as they are not disable, dead or dying, why not if they want that closeness and as long as everything is still working.  There are to many people in the world  and society that wants to give-up and count the elderly out from their inward feeling and that should never happen. 
        I also learned "never" take away what they want to hold on to regardless of what it may be. Society don't realize that just because a person is "Ageing", don't mean you lock them up and throw away the key!
       I also realized the depths of any son or daughter "Love for their Parent" which runs very deep.  If their parent is able to live on their own in their own home which is Ageing in Place so they could be more comfortable where all of their personal items are, then we must let them.  On the other hand when they are unable to live on their own and must rely on others to wash, cook, clean, and watch them daily, we must do and make that decision ourselves just like the reading from Lisa Ling.  This is only when a person has a impairment and they become totally disable with their disability this is when you must step up and care for all their needs. 

                                                                                  Question
I wonder "why now" the Census Bureau is just realizing and figuring out that the Baby Boomers are out living our youth?   

                                                                             Questions
1.) What could you have done to improve this learning experience?
2.) What could the professor have done to make this a better learning experience for you?
3.) List 3 things you learning this week, how do you see yourself using these things in your practice as a nurse, social work and or as a professional?

I could have read and done all of the 4 modules over again so I could learn, remember, and understand everything much better.
I could have asked for help with voicethread in a timely matter when I needed it.
I don't think my professor could have done or explain any  clearer to make this a better learning experience for me. I did have a little problem as it relates to voicethread but I finally learned the "how to" because it was my first time using the voicethread which took some time to learn, but that's all the part of becoming a leader.
I learned there are many technology landscape as it relates to improving knowledge sharing in social care.  I was not aware of  so many technologies  that we use daily.  Sometimes we use tools of technology and don't know what we are using and how it is related to another tool or just how it works to get the job done.
I learn, although there are many types of technology tools you must know and use the right one for the job.
I also learned the difference in Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, how both web works and their functions.

I see myself using everything I learned this week in my practice as a social worker professional.  Not only to help me but to also help my team mates when it comes down to running a smooth and productive organization, because we all must work together and become as one to get the job done!  
  

1.) Give 2 examples of something you learned from the Mental Health online modules and explain why you chose the two examples. 
2.) So, how did you do on the online module self-assessment? 

I learned in the UK there are about 7000,000 people that has dementia.
I also learned there are not enough specialist services for older adults with mental health problems in the areas of universally available, accessible, and integrated.
I was very surprised to learn so many people in the UK has dementia but it does not stop there in the UK, it is everywhere, all over the world.  This has being a big medical issue for such a long time,  I can't believe medical doctors has not came-up with medication to stop dementia or to slow it down.  If they can send a man to the moon they can come-up with medicine to help our older adults. 
What bothers me is the fact, it states in one of the quiz question the answer was false about specialist services are available and accessible.  It will only happen when you make it happen instead of allowing it to continue to stay in the planning stage and not go forward to make it a reality, do something about it.  

When I first took the quiz, I did not do well so I re-took the quiz after I re-read everything again.  I did a great job the second time.

                                                                                     QUESTION

Where do we as Social Workers start to help and assist in the healing process for our older adults that have dementia as well as depression without stepping into Doctors shoes?
    

1.) So, how did you do on the quiz?   2.) What is your reaction to the quiz?   3.) What did you learn new from the quiz?  
4.) What surprised you about the information you learned from the quiz?    5.) Did you enjoy the quiz?    6.) If so Why?  
7.)  If not why not?

I did well on all three quizzes because I took the same quizzes last semester in International Social Work class and I remembered some of the answers to the questions.  
My reaction is the information on all three quizzes, some of the questions are  still a eye opener because you just don't really know what's going on in the world around you until you see it or read about it or if it shows up in your own back yard.  Sometime you don't know just how good we in the U.S. have it!
I learned in todays world, in India 48% of the married women are now using contraception.  In the past most married women were not allowed to use contraception or they just did not use it.  In the year of 2000 there were 527,000 women death which related to pregnancy as well as childbirth.
What surprised me is the fact that for every thousand persons in China, there are only 15 cars.  I know this has and must be a problem there!   
I knew there are undernourished people in the world but what I did not know is the amount.  It states, there are 826 million people in the world today that are chronically undernourished, there must be something we all can do to help the hungry. 
Yes, although I took these quizzes twice, I still enjoyed them.
I have learned so much information I did not know or forgotten.  I learned we as a society must be Thankful for the little things that we have and we have not dealt with the problems other countries are faced with.