Curriculum 2024-2025
The balance between gerontology and geriatric topics will be one third.
| AFMEE IAGG e-TRIGGER 2024-2025 | |||
| 2024, September 26 | New Generation of adults | Prof Mario Barbgallo & Dilek Aslan | IT-TR |
| Healthy aging | Prof Hanadi | QT | |
| Life course prevention to favour healthy aging | Prof Dilek Aslan | TR | |
| Feminisation of Aging: When aging is a women’s issue | Prof Rosette Bonnello | MT | |
| 2024, October 24 | Cardiovascular diseases | Prof Joel Belmin | FR |
| Management of atrial fibrillation (including anticoagulation & non-pharmacological therapy) | Prof Carmelo Lafuente-Lafuente | FR | |
| Long term interdisciplinary management of heart failure | Prof George Heckman | CA | |
| Orthostatic hypotension | Prof Abdulaziz | SA | |
| 2024, November 21 | Neurology | Chairperson: Dr Hanadi | QT |
| Acute stroke: management and rehabilitation | Prof Heba Tawfik | MK | |
| Traumatic brain injury and long-term follow-up | Prof Souhil Tliba | ALG | |
| Diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson disease | Prof Salma Sakka | TN | |
| Team activity in Gerontology and Geriatrics | Prof Joel Belmin | FR | |
| 2024, December 19 | Nutrition and metabolic disorders | Prof Radhouane Gouiaa | TN |
| Food challenges | Prof Nicola Veronese | IT | |
| Adequate protein intake and anabolic resistance in vulnerable old adults (including enteral/parenteral nutrition) | Prof Mohamed Khater | EG | |
| Interdisciplinary team management of diabetes | Prof Meram Bekhet | EG | |
| 2025, January 23 | Dementia | Prof Mohamed Khater | EG |
| Prevention and reduction of cognitive decline | Prof Mohamed Khater | EG | |
| Person-Centred Care in Dementia Care | Prof Rosette Bonnello | MT | |
| Non-Pharmacological & Pharmacological interventions | Prof Tareq Qassem | SA | |
| 2025, February 20 | Mobility disorders | Prof Mouna Snoussi | TN |
| Gait disturbances | Prof Mouna Snoussi | TN | |
| Empowering mobility in the built environment | Prof P.O. Lefebvre | FR | |
| Team management of recurrent falls (cover fall prevention, rehab) | Prof Joel Belmin | FR | |
| Team activity in Gerontology and Geriatrics | Prof Dilek Assal Public Health and Healthy Aging | TR | |
| 2025, March 20 | Long term care | Dr Leon Geffen | ZA |
| Home care basis and support of family caregivers | Prof Elena Moore | LG | |
| Entering into long term institutions | Dr Leon Geffen | ZA | |
| Elder abuse and neglect | Prof Femada Shaman | ZA | |
| 2025, April 24 | Mental Health | Prof Elie Stephan | LB |
| Attitude towards a sudden-onset mental disorder | Prof Walid Ahmed Alkeridy | SA | |
| Insomnia | Prof Mario Barbagallo | IT | |
| Loneliness and depression (covering suicide) | Prof Ozlem Erden AKI (Dilek) | TR | |
| 2025, May 22 | Pulmonary diseases | Prof Mamadou COUME | SN |
| Age-associated breathlessness | Dr Eman | SA | |
| Detecting and treating sleep apnea | Prof Sameh Msaaed | TN | |
| Prevention of lower respiratory tract infections (including vaccines, RSV) | Dr Abdulrazzak Abyad | LN | |
| Team activity in Gerontology and Geriatrics | TBD | ||
| 2025, June 19 | Team work in geriatric medicine | Prof Rosette BONNELO | MT |
| Continuity of care from and to the community | Prof Jean-Pierre Michel | FR | |
| Interdisciplinary team work | Prof Heba Saber | EG | |
| The importance of attitude and words: Communication in geriatric care | Dr Leon Geffen | ZA | |
| 2025, July 24 | End-of-life Issues | Prof Nicola Veronese | IT |
| Management of chronic pain | Prof Mouna Snoussi | TN | |
| From acute to palliative medicine and end of life care | Prof Ed Schutze | ZA | |
| Deprescribing at the end of life | TBD | ||
| 2025, August 21 | Aging in a changing world | Prof Jaco Hoffman | ZA |
| Humanitarian crises and older adults (migration, climate crisis, war etc) | Prof Alexandre Sidorenko | AT | |
| Facing and fighting against Ageism | Prof Jaco Hoffman | ZA | |
| Socio-economic implications of an ageing world | Prof Marvin Formosa | MT | |
| 2025, October 2 | AWARDS CEREMONY | Prof Mario Barbagallo | IT |