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Gerontology Program Overview
A perspective student must fulfill the general university requirements as stated in the section of the Graduate and Post-Baccalaureate Admissions of the Bulletin. To be considered for unconditional admission to the MA in Gerontology, a student must have completed an undergraduate major in an appropriate field with a minimum grade point average of 3.0. Students whose undergraduate major did not include Gerontology courses should consult the Faculty Advisor about making up coursework in Gerontology. If the student's undergraduate record meets the basic requirements and gives promise of a successful pursuit of graduate work, the program will recommend that the student be admitted to graduate classified status or graduate conditionally classified status specifying the conditions and time limit within which they must be met.
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Geriatric Care Management
The emphasis in Geriatric Care Management is sponsored by the California Wellness Foundation. It includes GRN 750, Home Care Management as a required course. In addition, the internship requirement, GRN 838/839, involves placement and supervised, practical experience in a geriatric care management setting in the local community. Students concentrating in Geriatric Care Management may also elect to focus their master's degree thesis or culminating field study in care management, which provides additional opportunity for theoretical study, research and writing relative to this field. For further information please click the link above.
Information for the Geriatric Care Management Scholarship will be provided soon.
Health, Wellness and Aging
The emphasis in Health, Wellness and Aging focuses upon the dynamic areas of health promotion, disease prevention and assumes a social gerontological and holistic approach to the experience of aging. Health and wellness studies broadly include issues of physical and mental well-being as well as family and friendship relations, community networks and the social and cultural context in which elders and their caregivers reside. Students will learn about the most current research of aging and recreation/leisure, physical well-being, and social relations and have the opportunity to participate in community-based internships involving wellness program development and advocacy and social justice. Students will be prepared with skills in applied research, humanistic gerontology perspectives, cultural competence, intergenerational programs and services, elements of universal design and ADA compliance and uses of technology in support of aging with independence and dignity.
Long–Term Care Administration
The Gerontology Program was established in recognition of this country's burgeoning elderly population, and the implications of this demographic trend for the field of long-term care (home-based, community-based, and institutionally-based). Long-term care is the fastest growing segment of the health care industry; there is a critical need to provide a core of professional personnel aspiring to careers in long-term care administration with the knowledge and skills to address the complex issues in aging, health and human services. The financing, policy, programming, and regulatory issues in the field of long-term care administration (i.e. OBRA, Title 22) require intensive study as they relate to the aging population. For further information please click the link above.
Please click the following link for the Patrick Nobis RCFE Scholarship Fund.
Please click the following link for the Michelle Benjamin Scholarship Fund.
