As professional helpers, we often assist clients in making end of life decisions with depressed and grieving seniors. Older adults who are isolated are often battling significant ethical/cultural issues which correlates to their high rates of completed suicide. Come ready to reflect upon your own perceptions of senile or depressed and how this impacts our practice and boundaries. 1 Ethics social work CEU

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to address the common issues associated with depressed and grieving seniors from an ethical perspective.

• Participants will review cultural and ethical ramifications with ageism in the health and mental health community and how this correlates with higher risk mental health issues. • Participants will consider and review professional codes of ethics to assess the role of the practitioner as advocate and how to apply more cultural sensitivity and discernment when providing services for this population.