Given Taiwan's rapidly aging society, the Institute of Education Gerontology was established in June 2007. The center focuses on cultivating elder education professionals, conducting research on elder education and aging prevention, actively developing innovative approaches to adult learning, implementing government policies on elder education, and promoting international exchange and research in elder education. As Taiwan's only Institute of Education Gerontology, it strategically addresses the needs of an aging society through education, learning, and proactive prevention.

In the future, the center plans to cultivate talents in elder education and learning design from a forward-looking perspective, implement innovative teaching methods, develop distinctive features in addressing aging society issues at the university, advocate for proactive learning and prevention strategies for aging society, and connect across generations to promote active aging initiatives, thereby enhancing the accessibility of higher education and fulfilling university responsibilities by assisting in caring for and improving the quality of life in local communities and promoting social development.

The center operates in a project-oriented manner. Since its establishment in 2007, the center's team first conducted a national survey on the promotion of elder education and developed training materials for trainers under the commission of the Ministry of Education. This project successfully trained 400 practitioners across Taiwan, creating a model for creative team training. Subsequently, recognizing Taiwan's rapidly aging population, the center's research team suggested to the Department of Lifelong Education that elderly issues should be one of the focus areas in the education field. Based on the "White Paper on Elder Education Towards an Aging Society," the Department of Lifelong Education accepted the recommendation and began promoting the Elder Education Implementation Plan in 2008. Active Aging Learning Centers were established in towns and cities nationwide to promote active aging. By July 2017, 363 Active Aging Learning Centers had been established nationwide. Policy formulation, HRD, curriculum development, and counseling models related to elder education were all established and implemented by the center's team. The Elder Education Program received the Executive Yuan's Service Quality Award in 2014 and has now entered its ninth year.

Since its establishment, the center's main achievements include: continuous collection of domestic and international geriatric learning innovation models (annual national conferences, international exchanges, and book publications); development of diversified geriatric learning materials (20 publications to date); development of the 123 model for senior teaching strategies; training of geriatric education promoters (97 training sessions conducted, with over 8,000 participants trained), including planners, senior counselors, senior service volunteers, and senior management teams.