Geriatric Education Centers:

This book explores changes in the structure,
activities, and relationships of Geriatric Education
Centers (GECs) over time in their pursuit of
sustainability, and hypothesizes that GECs have
shifted from the old economy, or the public good
knowledge regime, to the new economy, or the
academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime. It
tracks and explains how the change from one regime
to another occurred by identifying the ways in which
GECs have pursued sustainability, the kinds of
entrepreneurial activities in which they have
engaged, the ways in which they have created markets
and circuits of knowledge, the role of interstitial
and intermediary organizations, and the enhancement
and expansion of managerial capacity. It explores
conditions that foster sustainability, including
economic trends and policies at the federal and
state level, economic and political forces at the
institutional level, and the building of opportunity
structures within the field of gerontology at the
professional level. Finally, it discusses the role
of GECs in addressing the geriatric capacity of the
health professions.