Virginia Geriatrics Society (VGS)

The Virginia Geriatrics Society is committed to advancing health care for the elderly through:

• Promoting high standards of health care for the elderly and to advance the quality of episodic and long-term institutional and non-institutional care in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Assisting in the education of medical students and physicians and other healthcare personnel in issues of particular concern regarding the elderly.
• Fostering professional and public awareness concerning issues in geriatric medicine.
• Encouraging and promoting research in the broad field of geriatrics and gerontology.
• Serving as a forum for discussion of issues pertaining to geriatric medicine by concerned physicians and health professionals.
• Acting as a resource to professional and lay organizations, government agencies, and community programs in the areas of care of the elderly.
• Fostering the above objectives in cooperation with the American Geriatrics Society and to coordinate activities with other professional societies and interested groups regarding issues in geriatrics.