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Instructor |
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Location |
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Time |
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Class No. |
Fee |
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| GERCTR220 Demographics and Economics of Aging | J Griffin | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4493 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR220:
This course seeks to provide students with the ability to obtain and utilize information about the demographic and economic status of the elderly in the United States and abroad and to examine the impact of these factors on their quality of life. Students will also learn about the aging network and the major health and social welfare programs and services for the aged.
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Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR240 Legislative Process and the Elderly | R Sherman | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 13284 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR240:
Legislative bodies and administrative agencies, through power and process, can have a profound impact on issues in the policymaking arenas. In order to advocate effectively, it is important to understand the state legislative process and to engage in strategic planning to influence the decision makers.
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Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR305 Concepts of Aging | J Quinlan | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4494 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR305:
This course builds a framework for understanding the biopsychosocial aspects of human aging and the older adult in the United States today. It explores a number of variables that are important to the study of human aging and fundamental to the planning and delivery of effective health and social services of older persons. Each student examines his/her own aging process regardless of his/her chronological age.
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Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR315 Working with Elders | J Quinlan | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4495 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR315:
This course will facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skill to engage learners in a helping relationship with older adults. The structured experience of friendly visitation to a frail older adult provides an opportunity to perform in the role of an effective helper in purposeful relationship with a frail elder.
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Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR350 Influencing Aging Policy | R Sherman | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4496 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR350:
This course explores policy and practice issues related to providing this important community-based care to a widening range of elders. Students will learn to identify strategies for changing or preventing the change of a major public policy; to compare and evaluate those strategies based on different theories or models of change; and to propose a specific implementation plan for some portion of that strategy, including a plan for evaluation its effectiveness.
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Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR401 Intervention with Elders in a Community-based or Institutional Setting | J Quinlan | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4497 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR401:
This course is designed as an experiential learning activity. The focus is on service-learning as an instructional activity designed to meet the needs of elders in a variety of institutional settings. Students are expected to reflect on issues germane to elders and on ways to address and/or resolve their social and/or health related service needs, long-term or short-term, through direct services.
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Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR430 Health and Physical Aspects of Aging | J Griffin | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4498 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR430:
This course focuses on the physical changes in the body associated with normal aging. There is a lessened reserve capacity in all organ systems in the body that increase susceptibility to disease and illness. Emphasis is on health promotion and disease and disability prevention.
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Credits: 3 |
| GERCTR440 Working on a Gerontological Social Issue | J Griffin | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4499 | $1020 | |
Description for GERCTR440:
This is the second of a two-semester seminar focusing on Gerontological social issues and policies impacting older adults in Massachusetts and nationally. It offers students a more advanced opportunity to examine, discuss, and apply one of several current major social policy issues within the field of aging, and to actually work on the challenges presented by that policy to those advocating for individuals and their families.
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Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
