Our Goal: "to provide faculty, students, and practicing health professionals with the knowledge and skill to sustain and create healthier communities for vulnerable older people: those who are economically disadvantaged, abused, neglected, exploited; those from medically underserved or minority population; and those who are under-and uninsured despite recent healthcare reforms."

The Houston Geriatric Education Center (H-GEC), funded in 2007 by the Health Services and Resources Administration, has established a collaborative partnership in geriatric education and training with faculty in the University of Texas Health (UTHealth) schools (Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, School of Health Information Sciences and the School of Public Health) and with the neighboring Schools of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy at Texas Woman’s University and the Schools of Pharmacy and Social Work at the University of Houston. Through this alliance, the H-GEC is able to apply an interdisciplinary approach in offering training and education to a variety of audiences.

For more information about the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Geriatric Initiatives, the following links may be helpful:

• Division of Geriatric and Palliative Care
• TEAM Institute
• Research in Geriatrics
• Education in Geriatrics
• Fellowship in Geriatrics for Physicians
• Geriatrics Clinical Care
• Center on Aging at the School of Nursing

• National Center on Elder Abuse
• CANE Database
• ABA Commission on Law and Aging