Article Family Group Conferencing for older adults: Social workers’ views Rosalie N Metze Research Centre for Society and Law, Amsterdam University of Applied Social Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Tineke A Abma Dept. of Medical Humanities, VU University Medical Centre and EMGOþ Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands MH Kwekkeboom Research Centre for Society and Law, Amsterdam University of Applied Social Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Abstract  Summary: Family Group Conferencing as deployed in child care might be useful in elderly care to strengthen older adults’ social networks and self-mastery. When Family Group Conferencing was implemented for older adults in the Netherlands, social workers were reluctant to refer. To discover reasons for this reluctance, we examined social workers’ views and attitudes concerning Family Group Conferencing for their clients.  Findings: In an initial exploratory study, we distributed a survey among social workers who worked with older adults and were informed about Family Group Conferencing, followed by three focus groups of social workers with and without Family Group Conferencing experience. We also held semi-structured individual interviews with social workers and an employee of the Dutch Family Group Conferencing foundation. The respondents were positive about Family Group Conferencing, but hesitant about Corresponding author: Rosalie N Metze, Research Centre for Society and Law, Amsterdam University of Applied Social Sciences, Wibautstraat 5a, 1091 GH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Email: r.n.metze@hva.nl Journal of Social Work 0(0) 1–21 ! The Author(s) 2018 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468017318761732 journals.sagepub.com/home/jsw