Ageless Care Foundations: Understanding the Aging Care Continuum

Issued on 12 Aug 2026 by

City Tech Microcredentials

The Ageless Care Foundations digital badge recognizes learners who have developed foundational knowledge of how older adults receive care across the aging care continuum. Badge earners understand how demographic trends, increased life expectancy, and changing healthcare needs are expanding the demand for aging services. They can identify the range of care settings that support older adults, including home care, adult day services, assisted living, post-acute rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and hospice, and explain how patients move between these settings over time. Badge earners also recognize the important roles of nurses, therapists, social workers, physicians, and other members of the interdisciplinary team in supporting safe, coordinated, and person-centered care. This badge prepares nursing and health sciences learners to explore career pathways in aging services and to understand the growing importance of home- and community-based care.

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Issuer

City Tech Microcredentials

microcredentials@citytech.cuny.edu

City Tech Microcredentials is an innovative extension of City Tech that enhances career readiness and professional skills through its role as a digital credentials platform. City Tech Microcredentials issues digital badges that represent verified competencies and are highly valued in today’s job market. It systematically records skills at a resume-ready level, giving learners credible evidence of their achievements and simplifying the process of validating their skills, knowledge, and competencies. This initiative connects academic knowledge with practical skills, demonstrating our commitment to developing skilled, adaptable students equipped to navigate the modern economy.

Criteria

To earn this badge, learners must:

Complete approximately 1.5 hours of self-paced online instruction
Participate in interactive learning activities and case-based exercises
Analyze clinical scenarios involving transitions across the aging care continuum
Demonstrate understanding of interdisciplinary roles in aging services
Successfully complete the final assessment with a score of 80% or higher

Learners who earn this badge are able to:

Describe demographic trends that are increasing the need for aging services.
Identify major care settings within the aging care continuum.
Distinguish between home-based, community-based, long-term care, and hospice services.
Recognize the roles and responsibilities of interdisciplinary team members across care settings.
Explain the shift toward home- and community-based care and its impact on recovery and quality of life.
Apply foundational concepts of aging care to case-based scenarios involving care transitions and patient goals.