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Anti-Oppressive Social Work with Older Adults: Counterstorytelling and Other Strategies
From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work
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This chapter examines social work practice in the context of aging and working with older adults. The harmful assumptions made in social work practice, especially that older adults are frail, dependent, incompetent and isolated, is challenged. In order to counter these assumptions, this chapter focuses on older adults from equity-seeking groups, including First Nation Elders, racialized immigrants, and Black and 2slgbtqi+ older adults. Anti-oppression gerontology (aog) principles are introduced and are demonstrated through their application to social work through counterstorytelling.
Contributors
Wendy Hulko
Donna Baines is the director and a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice, co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of Orchestrating Austerity and co-author of Case Critical. Her research and teaching interests include anti-oppressive theory and practice, paid and unpaid care work and social justice change.
Ilyan Ferrer
Bindi Bennett is a Gamilaraay cisgender mother, researcher and social worker. She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bond University. She has over twenty years’ practice experience in the fields of Aboriginal social work, child and adolescent mental health, schools and health.
Shari Brotman
Natalie Clark’s practice, research and activism is informed and mobilized through her interconnected identities including her Settler ancestry and her Secwepemc and Métis kinship – as grandmother, mother, auntie and community member. Natalie is a Full Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Service at Thompson Rivers University, Co-Chair of the Gender Equity committee, and continues to practice as a violence counsellor and girls group facilitator with children, youth and families.