Internships

Guidebook for Developing an Effective Academic Gerontology Internship Program (280 K pdf file requires Adobe Acrobat)

Ethnogeriatrics

The Stanford Geriatric Education Center's Ethnogeriatrics Curriculum is an essential link for instructional materials. Click here to visit the Stanford site.

Social Work

The Social Work Aging Resource Center (SWARC) at San Jose State University has links to series of slide presentations which were developed by the Strengthening Aging Geriatric Education in Social Work (SAGE-SW) section of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The slides can be displayed on your web browser
or you can download the original files in Microsoft PowerPoint format.

Public Policy

The Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University has created a Policy Oriented Gerontology Curriculum. These components deal specifically with a variety of social policy issues involving aging Americans. The components provide timely and accurate information on terms, trends, debates, and legislation surrounding the issues. This information will be continually updated and will make use of the new technology of the Internet for providing current knowledge and access to a wide variety of resources.

K-12 Curriculum on Aging

New York State has developed an online version of the New York State Gerontology Curriculum Resource Guide. This guide contains free lesson plans designed for high school teachers who teach about gerontology.

The Positively Aging® curriculum is interdisciplinary, incorporating issues on aging and is designed for middle school and high school students. Our units are the result of a long term partnership between teachers from Northside Independent School District and scientists from the Aging Research and Education Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Please help develop this list of instructional resources. Send your suggestions and websites via e-mail to: Debra Sheets, RN, Ph.D.