The reflection paper describes how to characterise the baseline frailty status of older patients enrolled in clinical trials other than by their age. The aim is to ensure that clinical trial populations are representative of the users of the medicine, as the benefit-risk balance in older patients may depend on their physical frailty status. This supplements the requirements of ICH E7 note for guidance and questions and answers.

The board of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing (EAMA) is looking for enthusiastic geriatricians to join the XIIIth EAMA course starting January 2019. The two-year course consists of four intense one-week sessions held twice a year in January and June. Each session covers a well balanced geriatric topic with experts from around the world.

Session 1: January 21-25, 2019
Session 2: June 24-28, 2019
Session 3: January 20-24, 2020
Session 4: June 22-26 2020

Die Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft in Kooperation mit Citizen Science Austria, Alzheimer Austria und der Universität Salzburg organisiert das Team für #Österreich beim Internationalen Stallcatchers Catchaton 2018.

WAS? Das Spiel StallCatchers 1 Stunde lang spielen und damit Forschungsdaten analysieren

WANN? Am Welt-Alzheimertag (21. September 2018) von 10 - 11 Uhr.

The autumn course is adapted to the schedule of the 5th semester of the Bachelor programme  Nursing Science, but, of course, any interested students from other semesters and study programmes are welcome to join.

The deadline for application is October 1st, 2018.
The course will be held from November 26th to December 06th, 2018.

Age-Friendly Housing: Future design for older people (opens new window) sets a new bar for the design of future housing for an ageing population. It reminds us that when we consider the hopes and needs of ‘older’ people, we are talking not about ‘other people’, but about ourselves.

It is widely known that better educated persons tend to live longer than the less educated. There is apparently less public and political awareness of the fact that marital status is also strongly associated with mortality. Yet, hundreds of studies carried out over more than 150 years have shown that those who are married have better health and live longer than those who are never-married, divorced or widowed.

The role of the Education and Training Working Group on Adult Learning 2016-2018 was to identify policies that promote and support workplace learning of adults. The report presents the outcomes of its work.

The objective of ACTIVAGE open call is to implement and deploy mature Internet of Things (IoT) solutions using the current European deployment sites’ IoT ecosystem for testing, demonstration and initial market take-up.

The call targets European SMEs, Mid-Caps and Start-ups legally registered in a member state of the European Union or in a Horizon 2020 associated country.

Budget: 600.000€, with a maximum of 10 projects funded.

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 31 October, 2018

According to Eurostat figures, 32 per cent of Europe’s over-65s live alone, most of whom are women. Loneliness has become a public health issue, to which the Red Cross refers to as a “silent epidemic”, as "harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day" and "that kills more people than obesity", reports an independent news website.

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> All the (44 million) lonely people (article)