The Swedish Gerontological Society (SGS) is a multidisciplinary national organization. For the time being, SGS is the only Swedish organization represented in the Nordic Federation of Gerontology.

The Swedish Gerontological Society (SGS), established in 1998, is a society open to all who are interested in gerontology without restrictions. The interdisciplinary nature of the SGS is aptly illustrated in the fields represented by the board members and auditors during its first three years: community medicine, history, nursing, pedagogy, political science, psychology, social policy, social psychology, social work and sociology. The members' affiliations also include geriatrics, epidemology, geriatric dentistry etc. Members are researchers, general practitioners, civil servants, elder care workers, retirees and others. Members (in good standing) amount to ca 300.

Statement of aims and goals

The SGS is devoted to the promotion of research on elderly and aging, as well as to furthering the field of gerontology in the community.

Its objectives are:

• to arrange scientific conferences, symposia, seminars and meetings in order
• to facilitate communication between gerontological researchers in Sweden
• to partake in arranging international gerontological conferences and meetings
• to work for the development of gerontological education
• to support the publication of gerontological researchto establish itself as a forum of expertise with which municipalities, counties and national investigations can consult
• to encourage greater coverage of gerontological knowledge and research in the media
• to offer gerontological knowledge to members of other disciplines and thereby stimulate interdisciplinary research.

In March each year, the Society organizes the Swedish Gerontology Day, with a full day of invited presentations on a specific subject. Each year the Society also arranges several seminars with invited speakers. In june this year the Society organized The Third International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology with 75 participants including 13 top-ranking invited researchers from abroad.