The following organizations can provide information when searching for a career in aging:
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
Aging careers and professional organizations
Gerontological Society of America
Related professional organizations include:
American Psychological Association
American Association of Social Workers
Career examples
With the growing market of the aging baby boomers, careers in gerontology are diverse and rewarding. The following are some of the careers that involve working with the aging:
Activity director
Adult day care coordinator
Aging services administrator
Animal assisted therapist
Architect/construction/design
Assistive technology specialist
Audiologist
Biomedical engineers
Business and entrepreneurial
Certified senior advisor
Counselor
Dietitian
Education (continuing/lifelong)
Elder family mediator
Elder law attorney
Estate planner
Family therapist
Financial planner
Fitness trainer
Geriatric case manager
Geriatric opthamologist
Geriatric optometrist
Geriatric pharmacist
Geriatric psychiatrist
Geriatrician
Gero-psychologist
Grant writer
Grief counselor
Health care and wellness
Health educator (CFLE)
Hospice care provider
Hospital discharge coordinator
Human resources
Human services
Intergenerational programming
Interior designer
Legal, state, policy work
Leisure services administrator
Long-term care administrator
Market research analysts and specialists
Marriage and family therapists
Massage therapist
Medical scientists
Meeting, convention, and event planners
Mental health counselors
Music therapist
Nurse practitioner
Occupational therapist
Ombudsman
Patient representative
Personal care aides
Physical therapist
Prosthetic specialist
Recreational therapist
Researcher
Senior adult minister
Social worker
Speech therapist
Technology
Thanatologist
Travel agent
Volunteer coordinator