S7 E9 - Age Discrimination VS Age Adjusted Care - a podcast by The Hearing Aid Podcasts

This episode discusses age discrimination in society and healthcare. We look at how age adjusted care looks to tailor care an approach specific to older adults needs and how the two might overlap. Learning Objectives:

Knowledge:

• To know that able to describe age discrimination and to understand the law relevant to this area

Skills:

• To know how to challenge age discrimination when it occurs
• To be able to design services that are age based by not age discriminatory

Attitudes:

• To realise that age is just a number and making decisions based on this alone is illogical

Show notes are available to view and download at www.thehearingaidpodcasts.org.uk for more detail and curriculum mapping against Foundation, CMT, GPVTS, Geriatric Registrar, ANP and NHS Knowledge Skills Framework (KSF) programmes.

Presented by: Dr Iain Wilkinson and Dr Jo Preston, Consultant Geriatricians and Jackie Lelkes, Social Work Senior Lecturer.

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