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Our mission, goals and objectives

Mission

The mission of NAGE is to represent the interests of organizations/groups that provide health professions education in geriatrics and gerontology, such as Geriatric Education Centers, faculty training/fellowship programs, and the like, through education of the public and other groups regarding the particular policy and financial needs of Geriatric Education in the United States.

NAGE is dedicated to improving the education/training, supply, distribution, diversity and quality of health care professionals through strong community-academic partnerships; ultimately to improve the quality of health care for all elderly individuals, including the underserved and minorities.

Goals The goals of the corporation are to provide a forum that brings together prepresentative of member organizations to enhance the national N-AGE network, facilitate the development and distribution of professional educational and technical assistance materials to N-AGE membership; provide a mechanism for policy development and dissemination to external audiences regarding the mission, goals and impace of GEC programs; and facilitate collaboration with other organizations or partners that have an interest in issues related to health care education in geriatrics and gerontology.

Major Objectives

1) To provide an organization to serve as a voice for the goals and interests of the nation's Geriatric Education Centers (GECs) and other groups/organizations that provide education in geriatrics and gerontology;

2) To facilitate the interactions of the individual GECs and organizations with each other;

3) To provide guidance to the United States Public Health Service and other organizations in the development of programs to enhance the education of health care practitioners and others;

4) To educate Congress about necessary priorities in geriatric education;

5) To provide an organization that will work with other interest groups in geriatrics and gerontology to enhance opportunities for the education of health care practitioners in geriatrics and gerontology; and

6) To disseminate information in the field of geriatric education.