Gerontology

The Coalition is a dynamic group of organizations and individuals that work collaboratively to give voice to issues that affect older North Carolinians. The Coalition engages in a variety of activities and efforts that focus on issues of common interest across our membership. 
Our mission as a coalition is to improve the quality of life for older adults through collective advocacy, education, and public policy work.

The North Carolina Association on Aging (NCAOA) is an organization representing community-based service providers in the North Carolina aging network.

Gerontological nurses are located all over the state and we work in a variety of clinical settings including long term care facilities, clinics, home health care, education, and administration. Members of the Gerontological Nursing Council are nurses leading change to prevent falls and improve quality of care and life for older adults and their families.

In 1979, a diverse group of professionals established a forum to share their ideas on aging. From its beginning, SGS has been dedicated to accelerating the process of getting information from the hands of researchers and academicians to the hands of practitioners for practical application.

NC4A’s primary mission
is to build capacity and coordinate the activities of the 16 Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) in North Carolina. AAAs are charged with helping older adults and people with disabilities, along with their caregivers, live in their communities in the least restrictive environment with maximum dignity and independence for as long as possible.

Centralina has designed several evidence-based health programs to create opportunities for improved wellness, more physical activity and greater access to healthy foods.

Centralina is also an advocate for the more than two million older adults, ages 65+, residing in our region. Through planning, strategy development, coordination and service delivery, we provide a wide range of long-term services to support older adults and positively impact their social determinants of health.

The Division of Aging and Adult Services works to promote the independence and enhance the dignity of North Carolina's older adults, persons with disabilities and their families through a community based system of opportunities, services, benefits and protections.

Located in Greensboro, the Creative Aging Network – NC (CAN-NC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to creative programming for older adults throughout the state.