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Harvard GEC Courses

The Harvard Partners Geriatric Education Center  (HPGEC) is a collaborative of health science professionals and institutions dedicated to improving health care for older adults through geriatric and gerontology education. 

HPGEC has designed a series of online self-study modules to provide up-to-date information and evidence based date for multi-disciplinary health care practitioners, geriatric support personnel, and administrators on a variety of geriatric mental health issues.  The online modules cover the following topics:

  • Advance Directives
  • Working with Older Adults using a Social Work Perspective  
  • Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Diagnosis and Management
  • Relationships Among Health, Aging, and Disease
  • Complementary Therapies and Depression in Older Adults
  • Prevalence of Late-Life Depression in Primary Care Practice
  • Driving Rehabilitation for the Aging Population
  • Gerontology: Implications of an Aging Society
  • Medication Management with Older Adults: Training for Clinicians
  • Gerontology:  What does it mean to grow old?

The HPGEC training modules can be accessed on their website: http://www.gecprojects.org/harvard/