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The way children see the world, the way they communicate, and what they feel confident about and worry about is different from how adults see the world, communicate, etc. The same is true for seniors. Thinking that we “know” seniors because we have seniors in our lives, or even because we’re seniors ourselves, is the same as thinking that we “know” nutrition just because we eat. It doesn’t work that way, and beneficially working with seniors demands a deeper knowledge and broader understanding of aging just as working with children requires its own set of skills and abilities.

This is one reason we’re seeing more professionals make the effort to learn about aging – whether they learn it by going through Society’s designation training, or whether they learn it by enrolling in classes about gerontology. The stakes have never been higher if only because we have so many more seniors these days and will have even more in the future. No matter what your field, you take a risk by not knowing as much as you can about the seniors you’re working with, and given their age, making mistakes with seniors can have much greater and more serious consequences than working with younger people who have more years to recover from uninformed advice and bad decisions.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, it isn’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you think you know that isn’t true that causes the most trouble.