Graduate Level

CHS 291, Health Policy and the Aged (.pdf of syllabus), CHS 52-087, Weds noon-3pm, S. P. Wallace, Ph.D.
This course is designed to provide both policy process and policy analysis information on key health policy issues affecting acute care, long-term care, and health promotion for older persons. We will examine both current controversies involving health policy for older persons and critical issues that are not currently in the news. In addition, the course will provide an analytic framework for examining the forces that propel and retard reform of the health care system and provide some basic policy analysis tools.

CHS 265, Images of Aging and Illness (.doc of syllabus), CHS 71-257, Tuesdays, 3-6pm, E. Berkanovic, Ph.D.
This course examines several ways in which the aged are or have been imagined as well as some of the images the aged hold of themselves. The primary purpose of this exercise is to help students interested in gerontology better understand the images of the aged they hold, the images that serve various professional and commercial interests in society, and the images the aged themselves use to make sense out of their experiences.

Undergraduate Level

Gerontology M119X/Psychology M119X (Gerontol), (Psych), The Biology and Behavioral Neuroscience of Aging, 2258A Franz Hall; Fridays, 12:00 - 2:50pm, Professor L. Butcher, butcher@psych.ucla.edu We will examine age-related changes in populations and individuals, consider evolutionary and comparative aspects of aging, explore human aging and genetic determinants of longevity, study interventions known to modify the aging process, and look at aging from the perspective of both intracellular and intercellular events. We then will review, dissect, and evaluate theories and conjectures proposed to explain the biologic changes occurring in organisms at the end stages of life.

Frontiers in Human Aging: Biomedical, Social and Policy Perspectives 2004-2005, First-Year Cluster GE 80CW.

GE CLST 80CW-1 Damron-Rodriguez, J. Seminar 1: Diversity in Aging: Roles of Gender and Ethnicity

GE CLST 80CW-2 Malmgren, R. Seminar 2: Preventing Injuries in Older People

GE CLST 80CW-3 Effros, R.B. Seminar 3: Role of Immune System in Aging, Health, and Longevity

GE CLST 80CW-4 Carpiac, M. Special Topics: Biopsychosocial Approaches to Wellness: Policies and Programs

GE CLST 80CW-5 Wood, M. Special Topics: Human Aging, Sexuality, and Drug Use *

GE CLST 80CW-6 Valenzuela, H. Seminar 6: Biology of Cellular Aging and Disease

GE CLST 80CW-7 Nakao, K. Seminar 7: Caregiving for Aged