Overview

The UCSF Academic Geriatric Resource Center came into being in 1985 as part of a statewide initiative to enhance geriatric education in the health professions. California State Assembly Bill 2614, which was enacted into law the previous year, established the Academic Geriatric Resource Program (AGRP) to fund academic geriatric resource programs at the six health science campuses of the University of California. Each of the six campuses developed an Academic Geriatric Resource Center (AGRC) to plan, implement, facilitate, and coordinate activities in support of the following:

GOALS:

1. To promote geriatric education for students in the health professions at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels

2. To develop multidisciplinary, community-based clinical education experiences in geriatrics that span the continuum of health care for older adults

3. To provide public education and continuing education programs on the processes of aging and on other topics related to the enhancement of health and health care among older adults

4. To support research on health care practices in long-term care settings