SSW student Danely Johnson wrote a blog post on her recent international learning experiences in Kerala, India for the Universities at Shady Grove web site.
The purpose of the trip was to attend a Healthy Ageing and Mental Health conference hosted by Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. There, a multi-disciplined group of Social Work, Nursing and Public Health students from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, learned about evidence-based models used in geriatric mental health settings. Speakers from India ,and all over the world, participated, including distinguished professors from Australia, England, Slovakia, France, South Africa, and the United States.