Department of Clinical Welfare Service, School of Social Welfare, Kyusyu University of Health and Welfare
Abstract
Students studying to become care workers need to understand the current state of senior citizens who live in their region through continuous volunteer participation. Locally situated courses are desirable for these volunteer experiences.As a result, the students did not take a limited view on the elderly as simply needing care, but took a broader view and treated the elderly as ordinary citizens. They were able to discover why healthy elderly people came to need care, what could be done to prevent the need for care, and how to relate to them in concrete terms so as to provide solutions to their problems.This demonstrates that, in order to enhance care services education in the future, we must offer appropriate support for not only in-school education and specialized intensive care giving, but also for light- to mid-level in-home elderly care, establishing a broad range of opportunities to learn about social welfare
