general events
“Impact of nutrition for rehabilitation of older patients” – First course
Venice International University Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Venezia, ItalyThis inaugural EICA translational teaching activity has reviewed the evidence-based role of nutrition in older adults for better rehabilitation outcomes. The Course is organized by the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing (EICA), in collaboration with the European Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM) and the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) with strong [...]
Second course: effective care of older patients with swallowing difficulties
Venice International University Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Venezia, ItalyThis Course is organized by the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing (EICA), with collaboration of the European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD) and the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS). Nestlé Health Science has partnered to enable training of 40-50 clinicians, who we rely on your markets to nominate. Number of Attendees: max 50 [...]
Changing the vaccine paradigm: Stressing the importance of adult immunization
Venice International University Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Venezia, ItalyThe 2015 WHO Healthy Aging Programs as a mean to enhance preventive measures during the life course: the concept of “Adding Health to Years”.
MPI_Age Project Final Event
Venice International University Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Venezia, ItalyUsing Multidimensional Prognostic indices to improve cost-effectiveness of interventions in multimorbid, frail older persons This project aims to use multidimensional prognostic indices (MPI) that predict mortality, based on a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), to improve the cost-effectiveness of health interventions in older individuals with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The best setting-specific MPI-profile in which individual [...]
Pharmacy-based interventions to increase vaccine uptake
Venice International University Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Venezia, ItalyThe European Interdisciplinary Council on Aging (EICA) has made the decision to focus this year’s main meeting for stakeholders on: “Pharmacy-based interventions to increase vaccine uptake”. The decision was a pivotal one in view of the fact that pharmacists play very different roles in various areas of the world. In some countries, their job [...]
VIU Summer Institute on Ageing
Venice International University Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Venezia, ItalyThe VIU Summer Institute on Ageing offers a “state-of-the-art” program which will provide the students with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, ranging from recent advances of the medical and epidemiological literature, to an extensive treatment of the economic dimension (pensions and long term care) and of the sociological dimensions (intergenerational transfers, role [...]