The competencies are arranged in three major categories: Professional action, knowledge about elders and others in relation to elders, and generic tools of analysis and action

I.  PROFESSIONAL ACTION

Helping elders and their families to meet their needs

·        Define individual needs through collaboration

·        Select and adapt appropriate solution strategies

·        Implement and evaluate solution strategies

·        Locate and establish communication with elders  who have unmet needs

·        Identify and document common problems and needs of clients which suggest need for program, policy, or legislative change.

     Community mobilization

·        Involve others in initiating and sustaining change

·        Provide technical assistance to groups in development of their plans of action

·        Mobilize and coordinate the use of resources to address a need or problem, including promotion of natural helping networks

·        Facilitate conflict resolution within and between groups and organizations

·        Propose and advocate policy, program and legislative change

     Planning and program development

·        Obtain relevant information

·        Analyze information

·        Design a policy/program/service modification or innovation

·        Evaluate a program element in operation

     Education

·        Utilize elders as resources/advisors in the development of teaching/training programs

·        Assess training/educational needs and interests of target groups

·        Choose and carry out a variety of teaching techniques appropriate to target group

·        Get target group to participate

·        Organize and coordinate training/educational programs

·        Analyze the potential advantages of and barriers to cooperative training efforts among agencies and organizations

Administration

·        General structure and process, including budget development and fiscal control

·        Personnel management

·        Establish linkages between own and other agencies to coordinate and improve service delivery

·        Self-management

·        Information dissemination

II.  THE ELDER, AND OTHERS IN RELATION TO THE ELDER

Health

Psychological and behavioral processes

        Social structure and relationships

        Consumer of services, advocate for services, service resource

        Leisure

        Ecology (living environments, transportation, crime, etc)

        Parallel integrative activities

III.  GENERIC TOOLS OF ANALYSIS AND ACTION

Communication

 Research methodology

 Problem solving

 Sensitivity/awareness

 Versatility in learning

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