The WCO-IOF-ESCEO Congress is a unique European springtime meeting programme for healthcare professionals, researchers and young scientists.
With over 3.200 participants, this has become the largest educational event and most vibrant clinical research forum for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and musculoskeletal diseases in Europe.
The main theme of the congress will be Geriatric medicine for future Europeans – Successful aging creates new challenges
Wednesday, 16 September, 2015 to Friday, 18 September, 2015
www.eugms.org/2015.html
The congress will cover main topics in geriatric medicine. In particular it will address the healthiest patients, health optimization, prevention as an underused intervention, organization of acute geriatric care in different countries, and tailored drug treatment. Other topics will concern new discoveries in dementia, integrated care for elderly people such as pre-post and perioperative care in orthogeriatrics, cancer and cardiac surgery.
Thursday, 23 April, 2015 to Saturday, 25 April, 2015
http://www.frailty-sarcopenia.com
The 4th edition of the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR2015) is dedicated to raising awareness concerning the need to implement frailty and sarcopenia into clinical practice. The last scientific findings will be presented during this unique event. Concerning frailty the following topics will be addressed: biology of frailty and aging, physical frailty and age-related, body composition medications, cognitive frailty, frailty in clinical practice and public health, clinical trials and therapeutics.
Demographic ageing in Europe and beyond creates challenges for our health and care systems and our national budgets. But it also creates enormous opportunities. The Silver Economy is the new gold. Large new public and consumer markets of the Information and communication technologies (ICT) products and services for ageing well are developing. Ageing populations are drivers of economic growth.
The IMI project SPRINTT (Sarcopenia and Physical fRailty IN older people: multi-componenT Treatment strategies) has been launched on the 9th and 10th of July 2014 at Sanofi R&D campus in Chilly-Mazarin (FRANCE)
