The Stockton Center on Successful Aging
Mission and Vision
The Stockton Center on Successful Aging (SCOSA) 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 seek to encourage older residents to "age successfully" through vital engagement in their community and with Stockton.
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- Older Adult Education, Socialization, & Recreation Programs
- Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning
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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.
Register HERE or call 609-626-3531
Program information and registration links for Summer 2024 courses can be accessed here:
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
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.
