Enhance your nursing practice and build specialized expertise onto your MSN education with the online Post-MSN Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate from King University. This CCNE-accredited program prepares students, who already have an MSN degree, for advanced practice roles in caring for adult and geriatric populations in the acute care setting. Learn more.

Develop important skills needed to care for older adults and meet the growing needs of an aging population with Brenau University's online Master of Science in Applied Gerontology. This program is designed with innovation in mind and provides an interdisciplinary course of study focusing on psychology, nursing and other subjects. Learn more and apply today!

The Ohio University Post Graduate Adult Gerontology-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) Certificate is for those who already hold a Master's degree in nursing and seek to attain the advanced practice role of the AG-ACNP. The 20-credit program features track-specific content that meets the core competencies and clinical hour requirements for AG-ACNP's set forth by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and can lead to specialized advanced practice certification eligibility.

The Master's Degree in Aging is an offer to members of all Degrees or Degrees for their academic and research training in different areas (health, education, socio-cultural, ethical-legal and management) involved in the study of human aging. A topic of great interest, given the progressive increase in the elderly population as well as the increasingly frequent displacement of care corresponding to the field of professionals. Hence, multidisciplinary knowledge is essential that can provide a solution to the fundamental needs of this population; A demand that will continue to grow in the immediate future, since our Region is a place of choice for tourism for the elderly as well as a stable residence for many foreign senior citizens, and due to the considerable deficits in care structures that make the initiatives very significant. to provide services of a community nature, as well as the generation of programs for the achievement of a healthy old age, avoiding the uprooting of the elderly person from their environment and reducing their possible institutionalization.

The Master's Degree in Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Care responds to the needs of health professionals to have theoretical and practical tools to improve the care of patients and their families. The program delves in depth, firstly, into the subdiscipline of oncology from the psychological perspective; and secondly, into palliative care.

With the Master's Degree in Palliative Care, participants will acquire the specific knowledge to offer patients with terminal illness, and their families, comprehensive, continuous and individualized care, in physical, emotional, social and spiritual aspects, promoting autonomy and respecting the dignity of the patient.

This program is offered primarily online, however, during the first semester, students will attend a hands-on skills demonstration and simulation weekend on campus. During those three eight-hour sessions, students will navigate different acute care stations and scenarios with access to critical care materials to practice and demonstrate competencies in caring for acute care patients.

‘Health, Ageing and Society’ is the new name for the Master’s Vitality and Ageing. We are ready for change – are you?! The name reflects the broad contents of the study and it better reflects what the programme stands for. Approximately 150 students have graduated since the start of the programme in 2016. Will you be next?! In the coming months, we will be updating our website. We have already added some new videos and the new yearbook (2022-‘23). Also, copies of the three main course books will be available soon. We hope you enjoy reading and watching, and hope to see you at one of our information activities! 

The EC2U Joint Master’s Degree “LIFELINE – Lifelong Well-being and Healthy Ageing” is a 2-year Master’s Degree (4 semesters, 30 ECTS each, 120 ECTS in total) that provides students with the knowledge, skills, professional and research competences necessary to the specialists of interdisciplinary approaches concerning lifelong well-being and healthy ageing. This degree is in line with professional practice within national and European public institutions and private companies and will form high-level experts in the bio-psychosocial fields related to well-being and ageing.

The proposed training methodology, added to the clarity, breadth and didactics of the content design, allows directing the Master's in Gerontology to professionals licensed in Psychology, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Sociology, Physiotherapy, Kinesiologists, Sociocultural Animators, Economics and Law.

The overall aim of the programme is to provide registered nurses with the opportunity to enhance previously acquired professional education and develop critical inquiry, knowledge and skills, attributes and competencies in preparation for developing roles within older person nursing. Successful completion of year 1 (Graduate Diploma) will provide students with the academic qualifications necessary to be considered for Clinical Nurse Specialist posts. Successful completion of year 2 (MSc) will provide students with the academic qualifications to be considered for Advanced Nursing Practice posts. The programme provides opportunities to explore research as evidence for enhancing and changing practice. The programme also provides opportunities for nurses to develop critical thinking and reflective skills at specialist and advanced practice levels. The programme will develop professional qualities and a high level of competence in the promotion of excellence and current best practice in the delivery and appraisal of advancing practice in older person nursing.

Prepare for an aging population. Answer the call to address humanity’s needs on shifting local, national, and global levels.

This doctoral program offers a space for advanced training in the field of studies on demographic aging and longevity through the scientific perspective of the Social Sciences. In this sense, it is configured as a cycle of studies that aggregates different disciplinary areas, seeking to capitalize on their similarities, but also their differences, in an approach focused on complementarities, which are assumed to be fundamental for understanding a multidimensional phenomenon such as demographic aging and longevity.

In Therapeutic Physical Activity for People with Chronic Pathology, Aging, or Disability with Physiotherapists specialized in work in care centers, public or private, that develop or want to start rehabilitation programs based on the practice of therapeutic physical exercise. Physiotherapists specialize in working in health centers and gyms that include chronic patients in their training programs.

Do you want to contribute to the sustainability of an ageing society and the well-being of an ageing population? Then this is your master’s programme.