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 | ||||