Students will be able to:

1.      Describe the effects of our aging population on older adults, families, society, the healthcare system and retirement planning.

2.      Delineate the psychosocial and physiologic processes of normal aging and age-related health conditions.

3.      Act as a resource person to older adults, their families and collaborating professionals in relation to viable programs for older adults..

4.      Interpret interdisciplinary gerontological research findings to promote healthy aging.

5.      Apply interdisciplinary gerontological research findings to the creation of programs that promote healthy aging.

6.      Implement effective healthy aging programs for older adults.

7.      Evaluate healthy aging programs for older adults.

8.      Describe service programs and policy interventions that could correct inequities in the aging experience as it relates to gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and cross-cultural differences, particularly among the economically disadvantaged.

9.      Identify ways to reduce ageism and its negative impacts on older adults’s late life opportunities to engage in meaningful activity and social engagement.

10.  Demonstrate effective, respectful, compassionate communication skills when speaking to older adults and their families.

11.  Collaborate as a member of an interdisciplinary/interagency team in the promotion of healthy aging in older adults.

12.  Apply public policy and politics concerning aging and older adults, including advocacy, legislation, organizational structures, and practices for identifying funding.

13.  Apply analytic thinking to aging research and statistical findings.

14.  Apply problem solving to critical ethical issues related to an aging society, such as loss of autonomy and end of life care.

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