South Texas Geriatric Education Center

09/29/2025

After two full productive decades supporting the important mission of the Alzheimer's Association, this new MedEdVid most likely represents the final AA/STGEC 'collaboration':

Annual Alamo Area Alzheimer's Association Assembly on 23 August 2025 (Saturday) at the University of Texas Health Science Center/UT Health San Antonio campus...

08/07/2025

Join us later this month (Sat/23Aug) for free community education re: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias from a Caregiver's Perspective.
Safe parking and tasty lunch on us. Registration is quick, free and easy. New event video w/reg info here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16gqryZ6rg/

05/08/2025

Ainsley's Angel's of America joined the San Antonio & South Texas Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association to raise funds and awareness (and endorphins) for our 10K/5K run-walk-stroll this past Saturday at Comanche Park in SE Bexar County.

🏃‍♀ Alamo City Fiesta family fun 5 & 10 & 0.5K Walk/Run for the Run to Remember (R2R) benefiting the San Antonio and South Texas Chapter of the Alzheimer's ...

04/17/2025

Caring for the Caregiver has been a hot topic in support circles for the past few years. However, the STGEC, with its many quality partners, has been promoting this important issue for a decade plus. 🫂 Here's but one excellent early example:

August 13, 2015 San Antonio STGEC Geriatrics & Gerontological + Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds re: "The Invisible Patient (How the Caregiver Can Often Bec...

07/23/2024

This time next month {24Aug24/Sat} our yearly educational summit aimed at dementia caregivers will be on UT Health San Antonio's main campus. Open to all and honchoed by the local chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and supported by community sponsors and volunteers. Close, free and safe parking plus lunch is included. Please allow long-time STGEC friend Byron Cordes to explain why it's a good idea to attend the AA's no cost symposium (with a friend or two) and then click the hotlink below for more event info: https://www.alz.org/sanantonio/helping_you/local-conferences

06/27/2024

Some images from this year's pair of Alamo City FUNdraiser walks/runs for the local chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Full event videos exist for both but here's the latter's ( ) brand new treatment: https://youtu.be/lQ6dl2xfEks

10/31/2023

Annual support for the local chapter of the Alzheimer's Association includes the Walk to End Alzheimer's, Run to Remember, The Longest Day walk/run and the annual educational summit. This year the latter was held on the University of Texas Health San Antonio campus:

Annual Alamo Area Alzheimer's Association Assembly. Public hybrid (on-line/in-person) education sessions on 12 August 2023 (Saturday) at the University of Te...

04/22/2023

The STGEC is proud to publish quality spoken word narration by choir director & board certified music therapist Amy. How she emotionally details her experiences with aging singers is a joy to hear:

An emotional narration by the author (Ms. Amy Standridge) of her "Join the Choir!" chapter in the "Live Life in W. O. W. ~ Nuggets of Wisdom, Openness & Wisd...

11/12/2022

Veterans Day weekend is the optimal timeframe to post an interesting 'new' vintage MedEdVid by a former US Army endocrinologist LtCol & MD Ken Simcic re: one of the medical world's more common yet still mysterious maladies: Paget's Disease of Bone @

Today’s Specially Selected Presentation: Kenneth Joseph Simcic, MD, FACHP, FACE {Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Pittsburgh & Temple University, Phil...

10/31/2022

Today {Halloween} is usually considered the scariest day of the year. However, for an elderly person subjected to continual abuse, EVERY day can be terrifying. Fortunately, to help on that frightening front, we've been lucky to have popular professor & respected researcher Dr. Yvonne Lozano speak for us. Here is a new digitization of her classic take on this touchy topic:

Today’s Specially Selected Presentation: Yvonne M. Lozano, PhD, LMFT {University of Arizona Global Campus Department Chair & Professor, College of Arts a& Sc...

12/10/2021

🧿 As of today, the GEC MedEdVids YouTube Channel affiliated with this FB page has qualified for a customized URL that's shorter & sweeter ~ thus easier to remember and pass on: 🕵

⚕ This was a combined geriatric education channel shared by the Geriatric Education Centers (GECs) connected for three decades to the UTHSC in San Antonio, t...

12/09/2021

The extensive coverage area for the SA & S. TX AA Chapter reaches as far south as Brownsville in rural Cameron County. Pandemic pragmatism dictated that this traditionally underserved and predominantly Latinx audience be treated to expert education via the hybrid model (on-line + on-site) for the latest World Alzheimer's Day:

Live and virtual dementia training on 21Sep21 (Tues) in the Brownsville Events Center at the southernmost tip of the Lone Star State. Half-day lay education ...