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/