Retirement communities aim to provide health care and
housing to retirees. This is different
from retirement homes, since retirees are allowed to have their own apartment
unit or house. At the same time, they
would be receiving on-site health care services and at the same time they would
also have access with different amenities that would improve their well-being
and health.
Retirement communities do not only provide services to the
elderly and retirees, but they provide career opportunities, as well. If you chose to explore a career in the field
of adult and elderly health care, here are several job options available in
this field:
• Doctors – doctors who work with the elderly are referred
to as the geriatricians. They are
required to finish medical school and followed by family or internal medicine.
• Clinical psychologists and counsellors - their work is involved in studying human
behaviour and mental processes to understand and explain people’s
behaviour. They would conduct
counselling and provide mental health services and therapy.
• Nurse and nursing assistant – registered nurses are often
the care providers to the elder people who are ill. Nurses should have an associate degree,
diploma or should have finished baccalaureate level. Nursing aides are also important since the
play an important role in providing care and health services.
• Physical therapist and physical therapist assistant/aide –
geriatric physical therapy is one of the most important service that retirement
communities. Many of the patients and
older people have experienced strokes, accidents, and arthritis.
• Social worker – most of them can be found in senior
centers, hospices, hospital and nursing homes.
They would conduct case analysis and also policy analysis.
• Managers
• Marketing specialists – concerned with the advertising and
sale of products and services
• Program planner
• Trainers
• Lawyers – they would be handling the legal needs of older
people like creating trusts, long-term finance plan, etc.
• Educators and teachers – the elderly needed to be educated
on how they could take care of themselves
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