Welcome to the Section on Geriatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association!  We have much to offer to international Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, and other healthcare practitioners.  Thank you for your interest in furthering advocacy and best practice physical therapy for optimal aging!

Journal on Geriatric Physical Therapy
Our peer-reviewed journal is referenced on Medline and contains 4-6 clinical articles per issue.  For $75 ($95 for non-US residents), you can receive our Journal three times a year.  Some recent articles are posted for free in the Journal Archive at this link .  If your university does not already subscribe, we urge you to make this publication available to your PT students by sharing our subscription form with your university library. 
Subscription form

Join our FREE listserve!
With over 1,000 PT members from all over the world, our listserve is a treasure trove of information.  To join, send an e-mail to geriatricspt-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. 

Home Study Courses
 Improve your care of aging adults by taking one or more of our Home Study Courses!  See this link.

Free Patient Education Brochures
Print Patient/Client Educational Brochures from our website and copy them for your clinic.

Order practice resources on our online store

• Awareness poster for your office or other local buildings, “What to do if you fall at home.”
• Instructional Video: Kypholordosis Measurement with a Flexible Curve
• Back issues and article reprints from our Journal and Newsletter
• . . . and more!  Visit the online store today!

Attend the annual Combined Sections Meeting
All are welcome to attend this year’s CSM, where the Section on Geriatrics partners with 18 other specialty Sections in APTA to host five packed days of clinical programming! 
Read more at www.apta.org/csm. 

Subscribe to our newsletter, GeriNotes.
GeriNotes is packed with reports on a range of clinical topics, as well as updates on Section activities.  Want to know how we’re working to promote care for the older adult in the US?  Get your hospital or university to subscribe! 
View our list of issues and articles
Subscription form

Advertise with us
Do you have courses, job openings, or products you want to advertise?  You are welcome to place a print ad in our Journal or newsletter, or place a classified ad on our webpage. 

Do you have a license in the US? 
You could join our Section!
APTA members may join our Section and get the Journal, Newsletter, free consumer education powerpoints, and all other member benefits for $45/year (PTs), $35/year (PTAs), and $15/year (students)  If you are licensed in the US, read about the tremendous benefits of APTA membership at www.apta.org/join.  If you are an APTA member, read about Section on Geriatrics membership at this link. 

. . . or become a Geriatric Certified Specialist!
You may be eligible to take the exam to become a Geriatric Certified Specialist.  Click here for more info.