All Posts: geriatrics

• $1M Gift Supports NHS Students Serving Geriatric and Vulnerable Populations

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: geriatrics, health disparities, health equity, nursing, scholarship endowment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Virtual Reality Training Helps Medical Students Develop Real Empathy

  (June 28, 2019) — Imagine your favorite grandmother is showing signs of dementia. She progresses from forgetting who your son is, to forgetting what day it is and that she’s supposed to host Easter dinner. When your family arrives that day, she doesn’t seem to recognize you. She’s still in her bathrobe and hasn’t made […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, Dahlgren Memorial Library, geriatrics, medical education, School of Medicine, virtual reality

• Taking a Broad Look at Aging

  With collaboration from teaching faculty across the campus, Georgetown University will launch the new master’s in aging & health program in this fall. The new program goes beyond geriatrics to the study of aging well in today’s society.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: aging, geriatrics