Activities & Services
Education and Training:
The SGEC has developed ethnogeriatric educational programs in: health literacy, dementia care and family caregiving, chronic disease self management, spirituality, and emergency preparedness. In the past, the SGEC has received national recognition for its ethnogeriatric programs and resources which have focused on mental health issues in Alzheimer’s/dementia care and depression, diabetes care, family caregiving, long term care and end-of life care including hospice and spirituality, health promotion/disease prevention, complementary alternative medicine, ethics in geriatric care, and group-specific training such as ethnic minority women’s health, rural health, and health care for elders in specific ethnic groups.
These multidisciplinary activities include:
- Mini-Fellowships
- Visiting Scholars
- 1-2 day conferences
- Staff training intensives
- Short-term trainings
- Web based curriculum and training
- Distance learning
- Instructional resources on CDs
- Printed monographs, and videotape
Ethnogeriatric Resource Center:
The SGEC identifies, collects, and reviews materials pertaining to health and human service needs of elders from different ethnic backgrounds. Summary papers, bibliographies, and curricula are developed, evaluated, and disseminated. An ethnogeriatric bibliographic database is available for identifying and accessing literature on specific topics.
To access the Ethnogeriatric Resource Center, click on the Ethnogeriatric Educational Resources link on the left side of this web page.
Curriculum Resources in Ethnogeriatrics:
The SGEC has a series of working papers, monographs, videos, and teaching modules that address specific ethnic minority categories in a variety of contexts across several health care disciplines.
To access The Curriculum in Ethnogeriatrics, click on the Ethnogeriatrics Curriculum link on the left side of this web page.
Consultation:
Evaluation, intervention design, and technical assistance are available for managing multiethnic health teams serving ethnic elders and their families from different ethnic backgrounds. Assistance is available for developing training and curriculum materials, culturally appropriate programs, and organizational assessment of cultural competence.
Research Collaboration:
SGEC faculty and staff initiate or participate in ethnogeriatric focused research in partnership with academic faculty, degree-seeking students, the GEC network, and community-based organizations.
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