The Stockton Center on Successful Aging

Mission and Vision

The Stockton Center on Successful Aging promotes research, education, and services to nurture the body, mind, and spirit  of New Jersey's growing population of older adults.

 

SCOSA responds to local, state, and national needs and opportunities related to population aging. We strive to encourage older adults to age successfully through engagement with Stockton University, New Jersey's only member of the Age-friendly University Global Network, and the southern New Jersey community.

 

 

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Stockton joined the AFU Global Network and endorsed the Network's Ten Principles. (December, 2018)

SCOSA continues aligning programming with AFU principles and encourage the university to practice Age Inclusivity in programs and services.

Learn more about the Global Network from the Gerontological Society of America.

 

Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group

                         

SCOSA's weekly Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group meets on Tuesdays from noon – 1:00 p.m.

Caregivers can attend, free of charge, in-person at the Galloway campus or online via Zoom. Each session includes education and support with SCOSA’s experts on caregiving and mental health. The project is funded under The Older American’s Act, through a grant by the Atlantic County (NJ) Area Agency on Aging.

REGISTER HERE or call 609-626-3591

Each four-session SILL course is $45 (unless otherwise notified). Courses are FREE for residents 60 years old or older, who live in Atlantic County. Click HERE for more information!

Comfort for Caregivers: Grief Workshop

Friday, December 6, 2024 from noon – 2:00 p.m.

                         

Join us for a workshop and support session for anyone grieving the death of a loved one with dementia. 

 

This workshop is for anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one with any type of dementia or neurocognitive disorder. The two-hour session will describe how losing someone with dementia can be different from other losses. Coping strategies will be highlighted and all group members will have the opportunity to share their experiences with one another. All are welcome to attend. The workshop will be led by Dr. Christine Gayda, Associate Professor of Psychology at Stockton University. She is a group facilitator for SCOSA’s weekly Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group on the Galloway campus. Dr. Gayda recently published Neurological Disorders: Cases from a Biopsychosocial Perspective with her colleague Dr. Rebecca Mannel, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy.

REGISTER HERE or call 609-626-3591

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Stockton Retirees:  Click Here for information on various retiree benefits and SURA (the Stockton University Retiree Association), which SCOSA helped to establish and continues to support.

Financial Support for SCOSA

Help us grow our programs and keep most of them free-of-charge to participants by making a tax-deductible contribution to SCOSA. Choose between the Teski-Burdick Gerontology Fund (a non-endowed fund honoring the late Professor Marea Teski, visionary founder of Stockton’s gerontology program, and Professor Dave Burdick, who was SCOSA's founding director), or the Southern NJ Council on Issues of Aging Endowed Fund (established with a generous gift from SNJCIA in 2013). Click Here to give online.  Type "GERO" in Designation/Keyword box, and select "Teski-Burdick Gerontology Fund" or type "SCOSA" and select SCOSA - Southern New Jersey Council ... Endowed Fund." If you'd prefer to write a check, make checks to the Stockton University Foundation and note “Teski-Burdick Gerontology Fund” or "Southern NJ Council on Issues of Aging Fund" in the memo line, and mail to Stockton University Foundation, 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205-9441.

To discuss other ways of supporting SCOSA, please contact us at (609) 626-5590 or Christine.Ferri@stockton.edu.

SCOSA's Older Adult Programs are funded, in part, under Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, through grants from Atlantic County and Cape May County Area Agencies on Aging. Federal regulations require us to inform participants that voluntary donations to SCOSA are welcome. Such donations are not a fee and are not required. Any donations received will be used to develop and operate our programs. Thank you for your support!

SCOSA encourages fragrance-free environments in all of our programming.
Chemical fragrances in many personal care, household and institutional cleaning products cause severe reactions for some individuals and can be harmful to everyone in less apparent ways.