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Where a gerontology social worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a gerontology social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Gerontology social workers provide assistance to elderly individuals and their families helping them to cope with their biopsychosocial needs. They help connecting the elderly with community resources by gathering information about the array of services available to them. Gerontology social workers assess their clients' needs, functional capacity and health problems and liaise with medical professionals when necessary.

Also known as social worker, older adults community care social worker, geriatric social worker, seniors social worker, social care gerontologist, social work gerontologist, gerontological social worker, older adults social worker.

Professionals 77 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: care home worker, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
care home worker 72% covered residential home older adult … 72% covered residential home adult care w… 72% covered education welfare officer 71% covered social worker 71% covered gerontology social worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from gerontology social worker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a gerontology social worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A gerontology social worker needs 65 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • strategies for handling cases of elder abuse health and welfare
  • evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves management skills
  • geriatrics health and welfare
  • older adults' needs health and welfare
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make legislation transparent for users of social services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide support to social services users assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a gerontology social worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Gerontology social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a gerontology social worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.