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Outposting is an interorganizational method of service delivery that requires an exchange relationship between an initiating agency and a host setting, for the benefit of third-party clients. Its experimental adoption as a graduate field training modality at the School of Social Work at the State University of New York at Buffalo is discussed. (Author/LBH)

Weaknesses of early social work education programs in gerontology and determinants of social workers' ambivalence are analyzed and a new curriculum framework is proposed that would be sensitive to intergenerational transactions and quality-of-life factors. It would be community-based and focus attention on the middle years. (Editor/JT)