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Prevention and Intervention
from Molecular Biology to Clinical Perspectives
The workshop will be held from
September 16th – 18th 2011 The industrial countries are in a process of significant population ageing, which presents challenges especially for the health system due to increased pressure on budgets. The challenge for the future is to improve functional health among today's elderly on the one hand and to promote healthier life trajectories for future elderly cohorts on the other hand. The health care system should therefore develop from a solely repair to a more preventive system. Life-long prevention should focus on established risk behaviors like physical inactivity or unhealthy diet. Active ageing can indeed enhance quality of life as people age. Preventive interventions should slow the aging rates and, as a major goal, compress the phase of high morbidity before death. Unfortunately, the ageing rate, measured as the decline of functional capacity and stress resistance, seems to be different in every individual. Biomarkers of ageing were developed to characterize this biofunctional age and may be used to evaluate the success of preventive measures. Beside the main theme – prevention and intervention - the purpose of this meeting is: to make the general public more aware of the problems of degenerative diseases, to promote greater communication among the worldwide community of individuals engaged in biomedical ageing research especially between basic scientists and clinicians and to stimulate translational research. The meeting is organized in cooperation with the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Society of Cardiology (Working Group Heart Diseases in the Elderly), the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics and the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (Working Group for the Elderly Patient in Heart Surgery). The congress will continue meetings on ageing in Halle and thereby hopefully develop to a focus on ageing research in Europe. It will comprise invited talks and poster sessions. There will be no concurrent sessions. The number of participants will be restricted to 140 preferring active participants (poster presentation; poster submission deadline 31.07.2011). All questions should be directed to the main organizer, Andreas Simm. We look forward to welcoming you to Halle for a most exciting and enjoyable meeting.
Cordially,
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