Curriculum 2023-2024
The balance between gerontology and geriatric topics will be one third.
| AFMEE IAGG e-TRIGGER 2023-24 | |||||
| 25 May | Healthy Aging | ||||
| A greying world | Jaco Hoffman | SA | MD | ||
| Definition of Healthy Aging | M. Shawky Khater | EG | MD | ||
| Lifestyle interventions to promote healthy ageing | Matteo Cesari | IT | MD | ||
| 22 June | The relevance and management of Sarcopenia and Frailty | ||||
| Sarcopenia | Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft | ES | MD | ||
| Physical frailty as a pre-disability stage | Luigi Ferrucci | NIA-USA | MD | ||
| Nutritional frailty | Doha Rasheedy | EG | MD | ||
| 20 July | Public health | ||||
| Primary health care and geriatric medicine | Heba Saber | SA | MD | ||
| Long term care in national health systems | Dilek Aslan | TR | MD | ||
| Use of digital technology and Geriatric Health Care | Elias Stephan | LN | MD | ||
| 24 August | Cancers in Old adults | ||||
| Definition, efficacy of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment | Eya Cherif | SA | MD | ||
| Interdisciplinary team work in geriatric medicine | Bianca Buurman | NL | MD | ||
| Applications of CGA in oncogeriatrics | Kamal Haddad | LN | MD | ||
| 28 September | Chronic diseases management | ||||
| Prevention of chronic diseases to control multimorbidity | Heba Tawfik | SA | MD | ||
| Polypharmacy and deprescribing | Salwa Alsuwaidi | UAE | MD | ||
| Socio-economic relevance of chronic diseases | Abla Mehoi-Sibai | LN | D.Sc | ||
| 19 October | Cognitive Impairment and Dementia | ||||
| Early diagnostic of cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment | Mohamed Khater | EG | MD | ||
| Alzheimer disease and other dementias: from diagnosis to treatment | Dina Zekri | CH | MD | ||
| Living with Dementia – caregivers roles and socio cultural factors | Rayne Stroebel | SA | MD | ||
| 16 November | Mental health | ||||
| Impact of loneliness on mental health | Imen Baati | D.Ss | |||
| Depression | Nicola Veronese | IT | MD | ||
| Delirium | Marc Combrinck | SA | MD | ||
| 14 December | Nutritional and metabolic disorders | ||||
| Screening and assement of malnutrition | Sonia Hammam | ZN | MD | ||
| Physiological hormesis and hormetins | Suresh Rattan | NL | D.Sc | ||
| Epidemiology and Management of Diabetes | Ligia Dominguez | IT | MD | ||
| 18 January | Vitamin D, osteoporosis and falls | ||||
| Hypovitaminosis D | Mario Barbagallo | IT | MD | ||
| Falls | Mouna Snoussi | TN | MD | ||
| Osteoporosis | Jean-Yves Reginster | BE | MD | ||
| 15 February | Three special issues | ||||
| Social resilience or Social Inequalities | Martijn Huisman | NL | MD | ||
| Oral Care | Marina Kotsiani | GR | DDS | ||
| Palliative care and the problem of dying | K.Szczerbińska | PL | MD | ||
| 21 March | Cardio-vascular disorders | ||||
| Hypertension | Dr. Shaima Nabil Rohaiem | EG | MD | ||
| Obesity | Timo Strandberg | SE | MD | ||
| Heart failure | Ghassan Wafta | SA | MD | ||
| 18 April | Vaccines in Old adults | ||||
| Significance of vaccines | Jean Pierre Michel | CH | MD | ||
| Vaccine Preventable Diseases | Stefania Maggi | IT | MD | ||
| Immunization, public health, economy and well-being | Jeffrey Mphahlele | D.Sc | |||
| 20 June | Award Ceremony Online | ||||