Objectives: To detect good practices and new experiences of work with older people, that have proven to be successful in participant countries To develop tele-based training programmes (TV-Channel, apps, Internet-based) To promote transnational fora with Experts and...
One of the challenges faced by our societies is to preserve physical function and independent living with advancing age. Frailty is a clinical syndrome frequently anticipating the onset of disability. Common clinical manifestations of frailty are unintentional weight...
This European Innovation Partnership on Active and Heatlhy Aging infographic on frailty prevention gives an overview of the issue of frailty prevention to allow a better understanding of what it is, raise awareness and explain which actions are being undertaken by the...
The SPRINTT project has two major objectives. First, it will aim at providing a clear, objective, scientifically sound, and clinically-relevant operational definition of Physical Frailty & Sarcopenia (PF&S), to allow the identification of older individuals...
Frailty is rapidly developing as a research field. The clinical studies listed below will evaluate clinical interventions aimed at preventing or delaying the onset of disability in older persons by targeting the frailty syndrome: Healthy Life for Frail Malnourished...
What is frailomic? FRAILOMIC is an international initiative that aims to identify the markers, or biomarkers, of the processes that turn frailty into disability. The main objective of the study is to develop clinical instruments that can predict the risk of frailty,...
What is DO-HEALTH? As the European population is aging rapidly, health at older age has become a central concern: 1) to the individual who wants to stay active and independent at older age, 2) to the society who will increasingly depend on the productivity of the...
The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) – Global Aging Research Network (GARN) was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Department of Aging and Life Course to setup a group of 15 international experts to finalize...
The European Commission is responding to the challenge of an ageing population with an ambitious initiative: the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. One of the key actions identified by the Partnership is the prevention of frailty in old age....
Frailty has been described as a multisystem impairment responsible for a state of increased vulnerability to endogenous and exogenous stressors. This syndrome may represent the first step towards clinically relevant functional disability and has been shown to be...
