Abstract
Undergraduate student clinical placements in aged care settings tend to be confined to 2nd year ‘general experience’ placements or to 4th year electives. Hobbs et al (2006) reported that the University of Sydney undergraduate program had no stand alone unit of study dedicated to older people and the situation is similar in other states. Undergraduate training requires establishment of core knowledge and skills in clinical practice and it is not possible to cover every specialty in depth, although the clinical areas of musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, and neurology practice are well represented in undergraduate education. Aged care is an area of practice that requires all of the above essential foundation skills. But as aged care is generalist in scope, it is not perceived to be a ‘specialty area’ although aged care physiotherapy practice also requires advanced knowledge and skills in:
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