I am a social worker. I currently work in a nursing home in the Boston area. The primary focus of my work is on older adults, usually those aged 80 and up, but sometimes as young as 60. I also work with the families and significant others of those older adults. It had never occurred to me to create a blog about my work, but somehow that idea came to me today, and I'm going to give it a try. There will never be any identifying information whatsoever in any of my posts. This means I will never use the name of a client/patient/resident I have worked with (or the name will be changed), I will never give an exact age of a client, and I will never give specific details about the client that could be used to identify the client.
I think I got the idea to write this blog because I am curious about why I got into this work. It seems like I just fell into working with this population and have loved it from the beginning, but I want to understand my deepest motivations for working with these people.
I think I got the idea to write this blog because I am curious about why I got into this work. It seems like I just fell into working with this population and have loved it from the beginning, but I want to understand my deepest motivations for working with these people.
