General Catalog 2007-2009

Long-Term Care Administration

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LTC201  Personal Care & Assisted Living Administration

Spring Semester

This course is designed to enable students to focus on administration in personal care and assisted living homes. Topics will focus on administrative issues, regulations, fiscal management, physiological and psychosocial issues of this population. Students will have the opportunity to visit a personal care home and interview staff and residents.

3 credit hours.

LTC300  A Marketing Perspective to Aging

Fall Semester

This course is designed to enable students to focus on skills for service delivery from a business and entrepreneurial perspective. Students will have the opportunity to learn assessment and research tools that are applied to a review of current business applications in health care, finance, environmental design, etc. Prerequisites: MKT 220 and GER315.

3 credit hours.

LTC310  Fiscal Issues in Long-Term Care

Fall Semester (odd-numbered years)

This course will cover issues of fiscal management, including budgeting and third party reimbursements. Risk management will be investigated in terms of financing, liabilities and insurances.

3 credit hours.

LTC330  Social Services in Long Term Care

Fall Semester

This course will introduce the student to the body of knowledge and skills that are used to facilitate the social service function in Skilled Nursing Facilities.  Topics will include review of the applicable Federal Regulations, job descriptions for social service personnel, modalities of service delivery, evaluation and importance of a systems approach to Resident services.  Prerequisite: GER315

3 credit hours.

LTC495, LTC496, LTC497  Administrator-in-Training

A carefully planned program to provide in-depth experience (with cooperating facilities) in all aspects of long-term care administration. Supplemental seminars, reports and appraisals will be required. Credit awarded will be based on length and scope of each program. Prerequisite: Senior major with coordinator’s approval, 2.5 G.P.A.

12 or 15 credit hours (LTC495-6 cr., LTC496-6 cr., LTC497-3 cr.)

LTC498, LTC499 Independent Study

The Independent Study Program affords an opportunity for the student who wishes to undertake a well-defined research project. While the student conducts his work under the guidance of a faculty member of his own choosing, the project is carried out in an independent manner without regular class meetings. Effective independent study is characterized by a reduction in formal instruction and an increase in the individual student’s responsibility and initiative in the learning process.

1-3 credit hours each semester.

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