Curriculum 2023-24
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 | 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 | |||
26 June | Award Ceremony during the IAGG-ER in Malaga |