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 |