Topic > The Importance of Geriatric Assessment - 1061

Geriatric social workers should use interventions focused on promoting the client's strengths and developing their skills. Improve client well-being using programs that promote interpersonal relationships, reduce stress, and strengthen social support arrangements. Greene (2011), chapter six focuses on the evaluation of the family and its connection to other social systems. The primary goal of family assessment is to understand relationship patterns within the family structure and how they have developed (Greene, 2011). Family assessment also provides insight into how individual issues relate to family functioning (Greene, 2011). Understanding family problems allows the social worker to work with the family to alter those sources of family relationships that hinder management of life tasks (Greene,