“…Older adults often have complex presentations given the tendency for comorbid medical and mental health conditions, their unique psychosocial history, and accumulation of life experiences (Karel, Gatz, & Smyer, 2012). It is important to train psychologists who are knowledgeable about these complexities and able to incorporate this knowledge into their research, clinical work, and teaching of others (Gatz, Smyer, & DiGilio, 2016). National organizations have recognized that the United States healthcare workforce is too small and not adequately trained to meet the behavioral and mental health care needs of our aging population (American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Integrated Health Care for an Aging Population, 2008; Institute of Medicine, 2012), and the widespread opinion among national leaders in the field is that there are not enough geropsychologists to care for our nation’s seniors (e.g., Hoge, Karel, Zeiss, Alegria, & Moye, 2015; Gatz, Smyer, & DiGilio, 2016).…”