David Hage serves as Assistant Professor of Social Work and an Affiliate Faculty member
of the Shady Rest Institute on Positive Aging at Florida Gulf Coast University. He
teaches within the BSW and MSW programs and the medical case management certificate.
He is a gerontologist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the states of
Florida and Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives
(FACHE), a Jewish Healthcare Foundation Feinstein Death & Dying Fellow, a member of
the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW), a Certified Advanced Social Work Case
Manager (C-ASWCM), a Certified Advanced Aging Life Care Professional™, and a Certified
Dementia Practitioner (CDP).
Prior to beginning his employment at Florida Gulf Coast University, Dr. Hage was a
fulltime faculty member & Director of Field Education at Misericordia University’s
Social Work program based in Northeastern Pennsylvania. There he served as Gerontology
Minor Coordinator, Geriatric Care Management Certificate Director, and as the Faculty
Liaison for the university’s Institute on Aging. Dr. Hage has taught undergraduate
through doctoral level courses in Geriatric Care Management, Gerontology, Health Care
Management, Health Science, Occupational Therapy, Patient Navigation, Psychology,
Social Work, & Sociology.
Dr. Hage's applied practice experience includes work with economically disadvantaged
children and families in low-income housing, a maternity home with pregnant women
experiencing homelessness, at a rural community action offering vocational assistance
programs, an acute care inpatient rehabilitation hospital, sub-acute skilled nursing
facility, and outpatient care environments primarily with an adult through geriatric
population. Dr. Hage has experience in inpatient hospital and outpatient case management,
consulting, counseling, geriatric care management practice and social service, healthcare,
and academic leadership. Dr. Hage has previously served as the Chair of the PA Chapter
of the National Association of Social Workers (PA-NASW) statewide Aging Committee,
as a member of the Geisinger Behavioral Healthcare Center Community Advisory Council,
as a board member and trainer for the Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
(POLST) of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and as a member of the Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital Palliative Care and Biomedical Ethics Committees.
