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Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology
Associate degree programs in gerontology occupy a unique space in higher education. They must prepare students for a wide variety of careers and opportunities from technical and vocational training to preparation for further gerontology education at a four-year college. It is widely known that there...
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description | Associate degree programs in gerontology occupy a unique space in higher education. They must prepare students for a wide variety of careers and opportunities from technical and vocational training to preparation for further gerontology education at a four-year college. It is widely known that there is great variability among the numerous associate degree programs in gerontology; this presentation gives an overview of the revised standards and guidelines for associate degree programs. Associate degree programs will vary based on the faculty, the leadership, the program, and institutional support, this presentation discusses best practices for a variety of program types paying particular attention to competency-based educational strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-86809802021-12-17 Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology Macaluso, Suzie Faber, Michael Innov Aging Abstracts Associate degree programs in gerontology occupy a unique space in higher education. They must prepare students for a wide variety of careers and opportunities from technical and vocational training to preparation for further gerontology education at a four-year college. It is widely known that there is great variability among the numerous associate degree programs in gerontology; this presentation gives an overview of the revised standards and guidelines for associate degree programs. Associate degree programs will vary based on the faculty, the leadership, the program, and institutional support, this presentation discusses best practices for a variety of program types paying particular attention to competency-based educational strategies. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8680980/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2133 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Macaluso, Suzie Faber, Michael Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology |
title | Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology |
title_full | Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology |
title_fullStr | Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology |
title_full_unstemmed | Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology |
title_short | Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology |
title_sort | standards and guidelines for associate's degree programs in gerontology |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680980/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2133 |
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