University of Florida
Geriatric Education Center
Box 100277, Health Science Center
Room 4108, 1600 SW Archer Road
Gainesville, FL 32610
(352) 265-0274
Fax: (352) 265-0153
Email: gec@medicine.ufl.edu


Now Available!

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The UF-GEC's 2003 online continuing medical education program,


is still available for credit on the internet.

Participants can earn up to six hours of credit at no cost to them or to their facility! To check out the program, click here, or click on Continuing Education above to access this and other online programs.

 

Listen to our "Geriatric Rap"!

 

Link to GREAT HEALTH WEB SITES

Check out this new listing of great health websites. These websites have been carefully selected for clarity and usefulness for the general public and for health and human services professionals.
Many are Spanish language sites.

Compiling this list was a joint project of the Mid-Florida Area Agency on Aging (MFAAA) and the University of Florida Geriatric Education Center (UF-GEC). Special thanks go to MFAAA volunteer, Ray Jones, and to George J. Caranasos, M.D., Director of the UF-GEC.

Click here to learn about NIH's Health Care Summer Institue program with the University of Florida Office of Minority Affairs and the North Central Florida Area Health Education Center.

View photos from the UF-GEC's session with the students on Tuesday, June 22, 2004

2004 Health Care Summer Institute

View photos from the UF-GEC's session with the students on Tuesday, July 8, 2003.

2003 Health Care Summer Institute

View photos from the UF-GEC's session with the students on Wednesday, June 26, 2002.

2002 Health Care Summer Institute

UF-GEC Video,

"The Nursing Home Visit"

Wins Awards!

Click here to read more!

 

 

 

Read "Changes Affecting Medicine"
by George J. Caranasos, MD
Director of the UF-GEC

Featured in the November-December 2001 issue of House Calls, published by the Alachua County Medical Society, the article discusses the affect of an aging demographic on the type and availability of health and social services for the elderly.

Department of Medicine
College of Medicine

 

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Peggy Smith, UF-GEC
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