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| The Health Resources and
Services Administration has established a grant program designed to
strengthen interdisciplinary training of health professionals in the
diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and other health concerns
of older adults. Functioning within a defined geographic area, a Geriatric
Education Center (GEC) provides services to and fosters collaborative
relationships among members of the health professions educational
community. This educational community includes organizations or
institutions (both affiliated and unaffiliated with the GEC or its parent
organization) which sponsor formal and informal educational programs and
activities for faculty, students, and practitioners in health care. The
geographic area may be a State, or a portion of a State such as counties
or a metropolitan area, or several States or portions thereof which the
Center can expect to serve.
Objectives of the GECs are to:
The National Association of GECs (NAGEC) web site lists the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all GECs and has linkages to individual GEC web sites. The NAGEC address is: http://www.hcoa.org/nagec.htm |
