Geriatrics and Gerontology Center 

Bonnie Kantor, ScD, Director

The Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the OSU Health Sciences Center is a focus for aging-related activities throughout the University and is the only formally recognized unit on campus that is devoted to aging. The mission of the Office is to foster through teaching, research and consultation the cost-effective delivery of high-quality health and social services to meet the needs of Ohio’s older citizens. Through the Transdisciplinary Program in Aging, the Office provides coordinated education, research, practice and service opportunities in geriatrics and gerontology while enhancing and supporting the initiatives of individual departments, schools and colleges. Through this centralized unit for clinical gerontology, the University’s initiatives in aging are being reshaped to meet the demographic imperatives of an aging society.

OSU faculty in this discipline have indicated that their work would be enhanced by a central unit devoted to aging research and scholarship, since some major funders look for clearly identified research centers on aging to assist their funded researchers. Responding to this concern, the Center’s Research Program in Aging links faculty with common interests and helps them secure external research funding. Through seminars, meetings and dissemination of research findings, this program bolsters the OSU cadre of successful researchers in geriatrics and gerontology.