老年医学哲学博士-社会，文化和行为科学

人的衰老发生在定义衰老和生活阶段的社会文化环境中，并赋予它们意义。在社会文化背景下，生活是通过社会建构和文化传播的关于衰老和生活过程的观念来组织的，这些观念塑造了我们的感知和行为（例如，我们对健康问题或规范性生活事件的反应）。在关注衰老的社会文化/行为方面的同时，该专业的学生发展了生物心理社会学的观点。按照这种观点，个人的行为以及在群体，结构和社会层面的影响都可以从一个综合的，跨学科的角度来理解衰老，这种方法还可以将宏观社会层面的研究联系起来，通过行为和心理层面，以潜在的生物学和生理现象。
Human aging occurs in a sociocultural context that defines aging and the stages of life, giving them meaning. Within the sociocultural context, life is organized through socially constructed and culturally transmitted ideas about aging and the life course that shape our perceptions and behaviors (e.g., our responses to health problems or normative life events). While focusing on the sociocultural/behavioral dimensions of aging, students in this specialty develop a biopsychosocial perspective. In this view, individuals' actions, as well as influences at the group, structural and societal levels lead to understanding aging from an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective, this approach also enables linking research from the macro-societal level, through behavioral and psychological levels, to underlying biological and physiological phenomenon.