Social Work professional capabilities in specialist work with older people to ensure that older people have the best experiences and outcomes possible.
This Guide brings together best practice on age assessment, useful techniques and information as well as exploring the relationship between existing and new legislation on age assessment and the implications.
This brief guidance has been compiled to support social workers in formulating a response to families, following round table events that identified the wide range of social work settings where social workers were responding with limited guidance and training.