MAGS Mission

• To promote and maintain high standards of health care for the elderly and to advance the quality of institutional and community based care.

• To assist in the education of physicians and other health care personnel in issues of particular concern regarding the elderly.

• To foster professional and public awareness concerning issues in geriatric medicine.

• To encourage and promote research in the broad field of geriatrics and gerontology.

• To serve as a collegial forum for discussion of issues pertaining to geriatric medicine by concerned physicians and other allied health care professionals.

• To act as a resource to professional and lay organizations, government agencies and community programs in the areas of care of the elderly.

• To foster 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.