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Interdisciplinary Healthy Aging
This innovative curriculum will prepare TCU students to understand the diversity and complexity of the older adults as customers, consumers, clients, producers, and recipients of products, services, and programs. Responding to the opportunities and challenges of serving this population requires both ethical decision making and recognition that this issue is not just a local concern, but global as well. The result is an interdisciplinary minor which will equip students across disciplines to work with a rapidly changing aging workforce and an increasingly diverse older adult populace who possess multiple strengths, resources, and needs.
 
The Interdisciplinary Healthy Aging program includes courses like:
FrHuman Development
SoSociology of Aging
Aging Nation: Social and Public Policy Issues
JrConcepts of Gerontological Nursing
Death and Dying: Sociological Viewpoints
Issues in Women’s Health
SrInterdisciplinary Approaches to Healthy Aging
Physical Activity and Aging
Contemporary Topics in Psychology: Models of Stress and Health

 
This minor will prepare any graduate who will be working with seniors to better meet the needs of that population, whether a nurse, social worker, sociologist, psychology major, kinesiology major, or other.
 

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