6210 Week 8 Response to Discussion

Research Requirement:

As social workers working with the aging population, one must always be aware of cultures and be competent when working with them. Each elder one encounters will have different needs and cultural values, which one must be mindful of. An individual from Japan may have different needs than those elders that live in Germany. In Japan, elders are more than satisfied if the young take care of them, and in Germany, elders are very independent. Therefore, as a social worker in those different settings, I would have to view each individual’s culture to determine their requirements.