Education & Training Programs
The Sanford Center for Aging is constantly developing programs to improve and extend the skills of health-care professionals and non-professional caregivers.
Taking Charge
The Sanford Center for Aging is launching an ambitious new training program designed to teach people with chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes and arthritis how to manage their conditions. Self-management is a key to living a healthy life.
Research shows that people who take this program — developed at Stanford University and taught worldwide — improve their healthful behaviors and decrease their days in the hospital. An early focus of the Nevada program will be on sight-robbing macular degeneration.
(Learn more about Taking Charge.)
Gerontology Academic Program – University of Nevada, Reno
Developed by and sustained with support from the Sanford Center for Aging, the University of Nevada, Reno’s Gerontology Academic Program helps prepare students for careers in health care, education, public administration, business, social work, recreation, nursing, nutrition, psychology, speech pathology, audiology, law and other professions.
Students graduate with the knowledge of a dynamic aging society, an understanding of the processes of aging, and an appreciation for service delivery to the aging population.
(Learn more about the Gerontology Academic Program.)
Nevada Care Connection Training Orientation
These free training modules, which often qualify for Continuing Education Units, are designed to help caregivers and service providers, both staff and volunteers, work more effectively with seniors.
(Learn more about the Nevada Care Connection Training Orientation.)
Nevada Geriatric Education Center
Established in October 1992, the Nevada Geriatric Education Center is a joint program of the University of Nevada School of Medicine and the Sanford Center for Aging. It seeks to improve health care for older adults by providing continuing-education programs, information, and resources to health-care professionals and faculty.
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It is part of a nationwide network of similar centers created through federal grant funds from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
(Learn more about the Nevada Geriatric Education Center.)
Upcoming training programs:
Use and Misuse of Psychotropic Medications and Legal Considerations for Determining Capacity. April 8, Fallon. April 22, Incline Village. May 14, Pahrump. May 15, Boulder City.
Medication Management, Medication Alternatives, and Legal Considerations for People with Dementia. April 8, Fallon. April 22, Incline Village. May 15, Boulder City.
Parkinson's Disease: Sharing Wisdom, April 21, Reno.