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Overview of Geriatrics & Gerontology

Fundamentals
What is Geriatrics? – from the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging
What is Gerontology? Geriatrics? – from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
Geriatricians: Generalists In The Most Complex of Situations – from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
Current Research
Highlights from Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being – from the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
The Health & Retirement Study – A Longitudinal Study of Health, Retirement, and Aging – from the National Institute on Aging
Additional Resources
Test your Aging IQ – from the National Institute on Aging
Statistical Information on Older Persons – from the US Administration on Aging
Fundamentals of Gerontology – online course from Andrus Gerontological Center Ageworks
Working with your Older Patient: A Clinician’s Handbook – from the NIA
Intern Orientation: End-of-Life Care & DNR Discussions – by Eric Warm, MD, LastActs/Innovations in End of Life Care
Age-related Impairments: Experiential Teaching Methods – from Rutgers University
Interactive Population Pyramids – from the US Census Bureau
Social Gerontology Questions for Discussion – from the Sociology of Aging course syllabus, Rutgers University
Graduate Syllabi in Aging – from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Adult Development and Aging
Ageism curriculum resources – from the University of California-Berkeley School of Social Welfare
Curriculum Guidelines: Care of the Older Adult – from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Sokolovsky's Comparative Gerontology Quiz – from the University of South Florida
We Were Born Before 1945 – from the Sociology of Aging course syllabus, Rutgers University

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