This edition of the Congress will be targeted to specialists and health care professionals sharing the same interest in geriatric medicine: mainly geriatricians, internists, general practitioners, neurologists and physicians from every medical discipline, therapists, nurses, gerontologists, researchers and scientists, pharmacists, nutritionists as well to anyone taking care of the older patients, in order to understand the social, medical and clinical approach to geriatric diseases.
The International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR 2016) is organized to raise awareness on the need to implement frailty and sarcopenia into clinical practice.
Tiistai, 26 huhtikuu, 2016 to torstai, 28 huhtikuu, 2016
Concerning frailty the following topics will be addressed: biology of frailty and aging, physical frailty and age-related body composition modification, cognitive frailty, frailty in clinical practice and public health, clinical trials and therapeutics.
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 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.
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.
Tiistai, 8 lipiec, 2014 to keskiviikko, 9 lipiec, 2014
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)
