You may elect to add or create additional components to the HPPAE Essential Components tailored to your setting. For example, you may decide to add a component because you want to:

• Commit resources to serving a particular population (e.g., low-income older adults)
• Offer a specific type of service
• Fill an important education gap that your MSW program does not provide

Below are some sample additional components that HPPAE demonstration sites chose to adopt:

• A Public Service Component that operates exclusively in county departments of aging
• A Faculty Stipend for summer internships at an agency of the faculty members choice; the internship updates faculty on current geriatric practice and encourages them to integrate that knowledge into the courses they teach
• A Job Placement Component to help graduates find employment in the field of aging; this component may include a job bank and/or career counseling
• An Alumni Leadership Component that recruits HPPAE alumni to participate in an advisory capacity or as field instructors