Curriculum 2024
The balance between gerontology and geriatric topics will be one third.
ASIO IAGG e-TRIGGER 2024 | |||
27 January | Healthy Aging | ||
Definition of healthy aging | |||
The main goals of the UN-WHO Decade of Healthy Aging | |||
Life course prevention to favour healthy aging | |||
17 February | Aging in a changing world | ||
Aging in low and moderate resource countries | |||
Impact of climate change on old adults | |||
Being old and facing any humanitarian crisis | |||
16 March | Geroscience | ||
Impact of biology of aging on the aging process | |||
Inflammaging and its consequences (somatic and cognitive aging) | |||
Senescent cells | |||
13 April | Nutritional issues in the aging and old populations | ||
Screening and Assessment of nutritional status | |||
Oropharyngeal dysfunction and oral frailty | |||
Ethical aspects of nutritional interventions | |||
18 May | Enhancing social capacity of older adults | ||
Ageism, intergenerational relationships, and empowerment | |||
Challenges in caring for older people | |||
Social Prescribing | |||
15 June | Mental health | ||
Acute confusional states | |||
Mood disorders | |||
Coping with bad news or bereavement | |||
20 July | Cardio-vascular selected issues | ||
Hypertension | |||
Heart failure | |||
Atrial fibrillation | |||
17 August | Cancers in old adults | ||
Early diagnosis of cancers | |||
Geriatric assessment before planning cancer treatment | |||
Cancer trajectories and palliative care | |||
14 September | Mild cognitive impairment and dementia | ||
Aging Minds: Confronting Subjective Cognitive Decline | |||
Strategy for early diagnosis of cognitive impairment | |||
Judgement abilities and driving with dementia | |||
19 October | Sarcopenia and frailty | ||
Muscle science to understand sarcopenia and frailty | |||
Sarcopenia and frailty: consequences and preventive interventions | |||
Social approaches for sarcopenia and frailty | |||
16 November | Falls and Fractures | ||
New technology and fall prevention programmes | |||
Osteoporosis and fragility fractures | |||
Ortho-geriatric co-management | |||
14 December | Gerontopharmacology | ||
Medications in older adults | |||
Why deprescribing? | |||
Older persons in clinical trials | |||
4 January 2025 | Online Award Ceremony |