MISSION

Our program focuses on the processes of aging at the individual and societal level.  It examines how people change over the adult life course, on the interrelationships between older people and social institutions, and on the societal impact of the changing age-composition of the population.  We emphasize the dynamic interplay between the aging of individuals and their changing biomedical, social, and physical environments and on multi-level interactions among psychological, physiological, genetic, social, and cultural domains.  Our goal is integration and synthesis within and across these domains.  Our students and faculty provide the foundation for this enterprise, working to create a new generation of leaders in this interdisciplinary field who will assume key positions in academia and in the public and private sectors.

We welcome all inquiries into the new Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Aging Studies, which was announced by University President Scott Cowen in his "Tulane Talk" on September 18, 2009.