Concordia University’s gerontology and aging studies certificate program educates students about lifespan development, later life and their own place in an aging society. The program is designed to prepare students for ministry, service and careers in the aging services network (health, medicine, business, volunteer and professional ministries and care-giving services.)
Who can take gerontology and aging studies courses? Both undergraduates and graduate students may take gerontology courses. Students who complete the program will be awarded a Certificate in Gerontology and Aging Studies, but courses are open to students in and out of the certificate program.
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In churches, the congregation is at its best when it cares for its members that suffer and need the assurance that God, known through the faces of parishioners themselves, loves the older person with a dedicated and steadfast love. -- Mary Eileen Andreasen, Director of Aging and Disability Ministry, Archdiocese of Omaha
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In brief from the Gerontology and Aging Studies Program
[POSTED 2007-12-14]
Wheat Ridge Ministries has granted Concordia $35,000 towards the Generations Project, an initiative to establish new long-term senior ministry projects through an action-based gerontology curriculum. Under the direction of Dr. Renea Gernant, director of gerontology and aging ministries, Concordia will begin in 2008 to offer a gerontology specialization option and a certification in gerontology within its collection of Family Life Ministry courses. [MORE]
[POSTED 2007-12-14]
Issues in Christian Education, Concordia's academic journal, has published two issues within the last year that will be of interest:
The fall 2007 issue, Ministry Among the Generations and the spring 2007 issue, The Coming Age Wave: Are We Ready?