The Function of Social Workers in Nursing Houses With Nancy Kusmaul, PhD, MSW & Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW
Assisted living home and COVID-19 are today’s hot topics. With mounting cases of COVID-19, retirement home have faced numerous difficulties, particularly with offering social services. On top of helping older adults adjust to their new life in a helpful care setting and advocating for their rights and requirements, social workers are confronted with ethical dilemmas, tension, and worries for resident safety. What can we do about it?
Today, we are joined by Nancy Kusmaul, PhD, MSW, and Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW, to go over social workers’ role in retirement home.
Part One of ‘The Role Of Social Employees In Nursing Homes’
Nancy Kusmaul, PhD, MSW, is a Partner Professor in the Baccalaureate Social Work program at UMBC. She got her PhD from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work and her MSW from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Baltimore County Senior Citizen Abuse Union and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
Lynn Friss Feinberg is a Senior Strategic Policy Advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute, responsible for household caregiving and long-term care problems. She came to AARP from the National Collaboration for Women & Households, serving as the very first Director of the Project for Better Care. She has published and lectured commonly on family care policy and practice.
In 2007-2008, Ms. Feinberg functioned as the John Heinz Senate Fellow in Aging in the workplace of previous U.S. Senator Barbara Fighter. She received the ASA Leadership Award in 2006, and the Paul Nathanson Distinguished Supporter Award in 2015 from Justice in Aging for her profession work on household care concerns. Ms. Feinberg holds a master’s degree in social well-being and gerontology from the University of California at Berkeley.
COVID-19 spreads quickly in nursing homes and older grownups living in these facilities (locals) are at the greatest risk of death if there is a break out. Not just the nursing homes experiencing a shortage of PPE, however the execution of visitation limitations made it challenging for them to communicate with the citizen’s family members.
While it’s critically crucial to have sufficient nursing licensed nursing assistants, we would all agree with that if we want to enhance the quality of care or individuals living in assisted living home and other long-lasting care facilities, COVID-19 has mentioned that we require to have more social assistance, more emotional support, and connection to the outside world. Family and friends are seriously crucial, particularly at the end of life. That is an essential component of both health care and long-term care, especially considering that long term care is someone’s home!
Social employees are uniquely trained to acknowledge the significance of family support and the social elements of care. We need trained social workers who are willing to get associated with national discussions to guarantee that we have top quality social work that consists of emotional support at the community level.
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