Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Aging Studies

The program focuses on the processes of aging at the individual and societal level. It examines how people change over the adult life course, the interrelationships between older people and social institutions, and the societal impact of the changing age-composition of the population. It emphasizes the dynamic interplay between the aging of individuals and their changing biomedical, social, and physical environments and multi-level interactions among psychological, physiological, genetic, social, and cultural domains. Its goal is integration and synthesis within and across these domains. The faculty's teaching and research emphasizes both animal and human studies and takes place in a wide range of disciplinary and departmental settings across all of the schools at the university.