CARE helps prepare the nursing workforce for care of older adults by:
- Promoting opportunities for in-depth learning about older adult health within undergraduate and graduate curricula
- Fostering innovation and scholarship to develop cutting-edge tools and resources for teaching gerontology
- Collaborating with providers of acute, post-acute and community-based services to expand practice sites for students
- Organizing community events where nursing students engage with and provide health information to older adults
- Holding campus events to increase interest in geriatrics among students pursuing nursing and allied health fields
- Working with community organizations to allow nursing and other students to contribute to healthy aging efforts
I had never considered working with older adults because I thought it would be sad and depressing, but now I have completely changed my mind.
—Student in CARE community-based learning course