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Studying the Specialty in Gerontology enables the specialist to help patients in dealing with the aging crisis and to promote healthy lifestyles to achieve a successful aging process.
The Specialty in Gerontology shapes professionals who work with a multidisciplinary approach and a profound spirit of service. They are trained to prevent and solve specific problems in order to reduce the risks, mitigate the effects, and face the aging crisis, emphasizing on comprehensive care for the elderly, and promoting healthy lifestyles to achieve a successful aging process.
The Graduates from the Specialty in Gerontology:
- Master the application of the gerontological theories which support the comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach of elderly-related issues, with a humanistic and ethical vision, and a profound spirit of service.
- Master the gerontological assessment tools as well as the effective application of intervention techniques in order to solve problems related to the elderly and their families.
- Are skilled in designing comprehensive care plans and programs for the elderly in various fields.
- Are skilled to develop systems and policies of patients' care intended to facilitate the solving of medical, psychological, social, ethical, legal and accessibility problems of the elderly.
Specialty in Gerontology
| 1st four-month term | 2nd four-month term | 3rd four-month term |
| Biological Bases of the Aging Process | Biological Bases of the Aging Process II | Geriatrics |
| Normal Psychogerontology | Abnormal Psychogerontology | Psychological Intervention |
| Sociology of Senior Citizens | Economic, Political and Legal Aspects of the Aging Process | Social Psychogerontology |
| Anthropometrics of the Senior Citizen | Total Accessibility for the Elderly | Quality of Life for the Senior Citizens |
| Research I | Research II | Research III |
Biological Bases of the Aging Process
Understand the anatomical, physiological, and biochemical changes occurring in the aging process.
Normal Psychogerontology
Acquire theoretical knowledge about the psychological processes present in senior citizens: perception, memory, learning, cognition, and those related to changes in personality.
Sociology of Senior Citizens
Analyze the social implications of the aging process, from the demographics of the elderly to the importance of assistance, community, and family resources for the elderly in Mexico.
Philosophical Aspects of the Aging Process I
Understand the human being from a philosophical point of view, his nature, his purpose and his essence; the qualities by which a human being is considered worthy and allow him to be perceived accordingly.
Anthropometrics of the Senior Citizen
Identify the structural and functional changes occurring in a person during the aging process; those changes which turn into alterations in perception, strength, flexibility, motricity and/or resistance of the elderly. This is done to architecturally design an environment according to those changes.
Research I
Review the different methods of basic, quantitative, and qualitative research for their application and development in Gerontology.
Biological Bases of the Aging Process II
Analyze the effects of nutrition and heredity in the normal aging process and the neurological changes concurrent with this process. Understand the processes that create psychological, organic, and functional disorders appearing in senior citizens, in order to make diagnostic assessments.
Abnormal Psychogerontology
Understand the processes that create psychological, organic, and functional disorders appearing in senior citizens, in order to make diagnostic assessments.
Economic, Political, and Legal Aspects of the Aging Process
Obtain knowledge and discuss the economic perspective, both at an individual level and at the level of government policies impacting aging within the Mexican legal framework.
Philosophical Aspects of the Aging Process II
Apply bioethical principles related with life, health, sickness, and death in the elderly for the proper practice of a specialist in Gerontology.
Total Accessibility for the Elderly
Understand how the city, housing, and transportation designs either facilitate or hinder the mobility and autonomy of the elderly, in order to suggest the necessary adjustments to facilitate their motion.
Research II
Correct use of scientific literature databases in the area of health, regarding Gerontology¿related topics.
Geriatrics
Understand the complicated and uncomplicated diseases associated with the aging process, in order to have a basis for its timely detection, prevention and rehabilitation.
Psychological Intervention
Use the theoretical principles and strategies provided by Health Psychology, preventive intervention techniques and psychological rehabilitation therapies to create care programs for senior citizens.
Social Psychogerontology
Study the psychological aspects related to a successful aging process, from maturity to old age: personality, character, temperament, motivation, depression, mania, etc. impacting the social environment of the elderly.
Philosophical Aspects of the Aging Process III
Understand the importance of spirituality in old age to facilitate a comprehensive interaction in this stage of life.
Quality of Life for the Senior Citizen
Prepare the strategies to promote quality of life for senior citizens.
Research III
Apply the methodology of critical reading to scientific research articles for its application to Gerontology-related problems.
A student with a full course load will have a schedule similar to following:
| Schedule | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1st four-month term | 2nd four-month term | 3rd four-month term | |
| 8:00 - 8:50 | Epidemiología y Antropología | Bioenergética y Metabolismo | Metodología de la Investigación |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Ciencias Básicas en Nutriología | Bioenergética y Metabolismo | Metodología de la Investigación |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Ciencias Básicas en Nutriología | Patologías Asociadas a Obesidad I | -Patologías Asociadas a Obesidad II |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Ciencias Básicas en Nutriología | Patologías Asociadas a Obesidad I | Patologías Asociadas o Obesidad II |
| 12:00 -12:50 | Bramatología | Manejo Integral de la ]Obesidad | Educación para la Salud |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Nutrición en las Diferentes Etapas | Manejo Integral de la Obesidad | Educación para la Salud |
| Comida | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| 15:00 -17:50 | Taller Práctico | Taller Práctico | Taller Práctico |
The following requirements must be met in order to enroll in the Specialty in Gerontology program:
- Application for enrollment
- Copy of your birth certificate
- Two pictures
- Copy of either Medicine or Nutriology Title and a copy of your professional license
- Proof of proficiency in the English language
- Résumé
- Attend an interview with the coordinating professor
- Pass the Graduate Studies Admission Test
[Prueba de Admisión para Estudios de Posgrado (PAEP)].
Sanjuana Gómez Mendoza
Gerontology Program Coordinator
Building 5, office 5101
T. (81) 8215-1000 ext. 1267
01 800-801-UDEM ext. 1267
Fax. (81) 8215-1291
Dra. Blanca Pérez Rodríguez
Graduate Degree Medical Specialties and Continuous Medical Education Director's Office
Building 5, office 5101
T. (81) 8215-1000 ext. 1291
01 800-801-UDEM ext. 1291
Fax. (81) 8215-1291
