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 | |||
| 5 January 2025 | Online Award Ceremony | ||