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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1729
igaa057.1729
Abstracts
Session 5010 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Creating an AFU Learning Community Group to Combat Ageism
Andreoletti Carrie  June Andrea  
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”535 535
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Central Connecticut State University, a regional public university, joined the AFU global network in 2017. Through efforts to teach people what it means to be an AFU and infuse the AFU principles and practices into our campus culture, we recognized that our work must also include educating our faculty colleagues, staff, and administration about ageism and aging in general. Toward this end, we utilized our Center for Teaching and Faculty Development’s small grant program to develop an AFU learning community group (LCG) that includes faculty, staff, and older learners interested in the AFU movement and how they can contribute to the AFU effort on our campus. This presentation will discuss how we have used the LCG as an opportunity to combat ageism and increase aging literacy by sharing resources such as Ageism First Aid, Reframing Aging, and AARP’s Disrupting Aging classroom. Part of a symposium sponsored by Age-Friendly University (AFU) Interest Group.