Center Holds Meetings on Gero in MSW Advanced Curriculum

This summer, the Gero-Ed Center sponsored two forums, one on each coast, focused on ways to increase gerontology in MSW advanced content in the specialized areas of health, mental health and substance abuse. Experts from these substantive areas identified curricular and research needs and strategies to promote gero content within courses and field sites focused on health, mental health or substance abuse. Based on these meetings and under the leadership of Dr. Sadhna Diwan, San Jose State University, a proposal for the MSW Advanced Curriculum Project within the Gero-Ed Center will go to the Hartford Trustees in December 2006.