For over 35 years, the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Gerontology has been training students for careers in aging services.  In the classroom and throughout the community, our students are exposed to the most recent scholarship regarding the biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects of aging.  In addition, our students bring this scholarship to the community through community engagement and service-learning initiatives. 

2011 starts a new chapter in Gerontology and aging services.   The first wave of the Baby Boom population turns 65.  In the United States, this means that over the course of the next 20 years, the older adult population will double from 35,000,000 to over 70,000,0000.  This phenomenon is wonderful for many reasons.  An increasing population of older adults brings wisdom and a lifetime of personal and professional experience to society.  At the same time, an aging population poses certain unique challenge related to issues ranging from personal finances and housing to transportation and employment.

At the same time as the VCU Department of Gerontology is poised to take on the challenge of our aging population, we are met with certain financial impediments.  We are a small faculty of 2.5 at a time when our enrollment is growing and we are having to deny enrollment to qualified students.  We receive requests and are presented with opportunities on a daily basis to partner with community agencies and simply have to either postpone them or decline for a simple lack of staffing resources.

Your assistance is needed so that the VCU Department of Gerontology and School of Allied Health Professions can strategically grow to respond to the demand of the aging population.  Your charitable contribution to the VCU Department of Gerontology will be an integral part of a three-year plan to endow a Professorship within the Department to ensure that, in perpetuity, that the Department can continue to serve the needs of the aging population.

Any dollar amount or pledge will assist us in our mission to continue improving elder care through education.

Please consider a...

1.  One time contribution

2.  Three Year Pledge

3.  Planned Gift or Annuity

4.  Pre-Tax Payroll Deduction

5.  Gift of Personal Property

6.  Amplified Gift (Life Insurance Policy)

 We thank you for your consideration and are happy to discuss any level of involvement!