The superalgebra of [Formula: see text]-graded supersymmetric quantum mechanics is shown to be realizable in terms of a single bosonic degree of freedom. Such an approach is directly inspired by a description of the corresponding [Formula: see text]-graded superalgebra in the framework of a Calogero–Vasiliev algebra or, more generally, of a generalized deformed oscillator algebra. In the case of the [Formula: see text]-graded superalgebra, the central element [Formula: see text] has the property of distinguishing between degenerate eigenstates of the Hamiltonian.