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Teaching Notes

Teaching Note—Lessons Learned From Developing and Implementing a Dementia Caregiving Graduate-Level Service-Learning Course

Pages 576-584 | Accepted 30 Jun 2017, Published online: 13 Sep 2018
 

ABSTRACT

This teaching note delineates seven lessons learned when designing and implementing a graduate-level dementia caregiving service-learning course. The course was designed during a 1-year faculty service-learning fellowship and implemented during the summer of 2015. The course used a person-in-environment framework to explain social work practice with family systems affected by dementia. It aimed to increase students’ knowledge about dementia and improve students’ attitudes toward working with people with dementia through respite visits with families affected by dementia. Three recommendations for future course offerings are described.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the University of Georgia Office of Service-Learning.

Notes on contributors

Tiffany R. Washington

Tiffany Washington is assistant professor at University of Georgia.

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