The mission of MEAMA is to create a hub for education and training in the field of ageing in the Middle East

The MEAMA achieves its mission through four strategic tools.

Strategic tool 1. Education and training
Aim: To advance the scientific and scholarly study of ageing and to promote human welfare by the encouragement of gerontology and geriatrics in all their areas.

• To promote training of highly qualified personnel in the fields of aging.
• To improve knowledge and skills of professionals, physicians, health care professional and officers, in health related problems in older people.
• To expand education in aging; and to develop the qualifications of gerontologists by setting high standards of professional ethics, skills, education, and achievement.
• To stimulate scientific interest in the health related problems in older people.
• To promote and assist in the arrangements for holding the Middle-Eastern Congress of Gerontology every two years in addition to other conferences.

Strategic tool 2. Human resource development
Aim: To increase the numbers of trained geriatricians and gerontologists, among health professionals with the correct cultural background.

• To harmonise the attitudes and goals of future opinion leaders in approaching the health related problems of older people in the Middle-East region.
• To reduce the shortage that leads to inappropriate care, higher costs, and poorer patient outcomes.
• To reduce the emergence of negative attitudes and stereotypes toward aging.
• To help in preparing health professional sensitivity to the issue of aging, thus help in improving the quality of life of the elderly in the region.

Strategic tool 3 Network
Aim : To create a network of universities and educational organisation interested in training and education in the field.

• To build a network between the Middle East countries and the more developed countries.
• To establish a network among physicians, nurses and health care officers.
• To help in the exchange of ideas and methodologies in the area.
• To foster collaboration between individual physicians, centers and countries within the Region.
• To stimulate scientific interest in the health related problems in older people.
• To stimulate communications among scholarly disciplines, and among professionals including researchers, teachers, administrators, and others.

Strategic tool 4 Research and publication
Aim: To stimulate research in the field of Ageing in the area.

• To build the ageing research network to fulfil unmet research needs.
• To do collaborative research within the area, and with other networks.
• To lobby for financial support for research in the Ageing field from different organisations.
• To help in the development of research training programmes.
• To help in publishing research studies from the region in peer review journals.
• To promote research, knowledge, prevention and management in the field of dementia and specifically Alzheimer's disease.
• To foster translational research, e.g. the application of research into practice; and to advance the utilization of research in the development of public health policy.