• Engaging Aging Through the Humanities Conference
  Saturday, October 11, 2008
  
  
• Geriatric Curriculum in The UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program
  

• Interdisciplinary Team Teaching
  

• Sponsored Courses (click on course title for syllabus)

  • The Death Course, Health and Medical Sciences 240 Instructor: Guy Micco, MD
  • An Introduction to Aging Issues and Opportunities in Aging Professions, Health and Medical Sciences 150 Instructor: Juliet Rothman, PhD  *note: offered every other academic year or as resources allow
  • Aging, Health & Diversity, Public Health 130  
    Instructor: Juliet Rothman, PhD
  • Critical Perspectives on Aging and Health, a new course to be offered in the school of Public Health. Course target date: Spring 2010.
    
    
• Reader's Theater
  

• Life and Death Potluck Group: Related Lectures/Discussions sponsored by the UCB Center for Medicine, Humanities, and the Law, and the Center on Aging. Contact: Guy Micco, MD

  • On March 2, 2009 our guest will be Dr. Stan Terman, who will discuss discontinuation of fluid and nutrition at end-of-life and review with us the new California legislation authorizing (as of Jan 1, 2009) the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) document.
  • On April 6, 2009 our guest will be Sharon Kaufman, who will discuss her new project regarding the medical, ethical, and social milieu surrounding life-extension technology for elders.
    
    
• Member, Northern California Geriatric Education Center Consortium
  For information, please visit: http://www.norcalgec.org/index.html (and select from menu to the left).
  
  
• Sponsor/co-sponsor lectures and educational activities for the campus community and general public- select activities below:
  • South, Southeast Asian Studies, Optometry 39B and C THE DEVELOPING WORLD: PROBLEMS, NEEDS, OPPORTUNITIES; PROVISION OF VISION CARE IN INDIA WILL BE USED AS AN EXAMPLE. http://optometry.berkeley.edu/class/opt39b/
  • Conference Co-Sponsor: October 22, 2008, Sustainable Long Term Care: Ethics, Technology and International Perspectives hosted by On Lok Lifeways: http://www.onlok.org/
  • Conference Sponsor: First Annual International Film Festival on Aging presented by Pacific Institute and AgeSong Senior Communities: http://www.filmfestonaging.org/
    
    
• The Long-Term Care Community Project
  Through collaborations with Piedmont Gardens Retirement Home, Salem Lutheran Home, Mercy Retirement and Care Center, Chaparral House, and AgeSong Senior Communities, this Project aims to provide experiential opportunities for students in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and in the Schools of Public Health, Social Welfare, Optometry, and from Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union Chaplaincy Field Education Program. In addition, students from the UCSF School of Nursing Program in Gerontology, and graduate students from Samuel Merritt University's Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Nursing Departments, are invited to participate. This Project also helps facilitate the placement of UCB graduate and post-doctoral students who would like to conduct research or initiate Projects in long-term care settings.
  
  
• An interdisciplinary working group on cognitive changes in aging to actuate curriculum development, educational activities, and experiential learning opportunities.
  Lead Faculty: Guy Micco, MD and Desi Owens, MS, MSW, LCSW
The Center on Aging is in the process of establishing a working group of interested faculty, students, professionals in the field, caregivers, and individuals experiencing cognitive changes to identify needs and develop and phase in student and faculty Projects. The overall goal of this working group is to create educational activities that expose students to a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of care through didactic and experiential learning methods. The working group will ultimately create programs that stimulate interdisciplinary thinking about cognitive changes that occur with aging, and provide students with a variety of conceptual frameworks through exposure to various theories and practices (e.g., biological, anthropological; social; psychological and spiritual).
Under the auspices of this working group, the UCB AGRC will pilot their first Project tailored to elders experiencing cognitive change; the Project will be titled, "The Imagination Workshop", and will be offered in collaboration with Linda Spector, Drama director, instructor, playwright, and former Co-Director of Stagebridge Senior Theater Company. The workshop will pair elders with students from the health professions and engage both groups in creative expression through improvisation to promote imagination, memory, communication and to keep the five senses stimulated and active.

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