Gero Nurse

What makes gero education successful? The question should be “What makes gero teaching successful?” By “successful,” I refer to the ability...

I don’t know about other countries, but here in Hong Kong, as part of the selection process for admitting applicants to baccalaureate progra...

I try to be myself when I teach. To me, being who you are as a person is just as important as what you teach. But increasingly it seems that...

I learn how to care for older people in practical ways by observing my mother. I notice how she can easily become tired—progressively so ove...

I respect and value my students as adults. I treat them as friends. At least, this is what I used to do, most of the time. There are var...

In a previous post ( 13 March 2014 ), I mentioned that, to help my students become more observant of age-related issues, I ask them to write...

More often than not, a college teacher is someone who is older than his or her students. That means there is already a “generation gap” and ...