14th European Union Geriatric Medicine Society Annual Congress (EUGMS)

14th European Union Geriatric Medicine Society Annual Congress (EUGMS) is organized by European Union Geriatric Medicine Society Annual Congress (EUGMS) and will be held from Oct 10 - 12, 2018 at bcc Berlin Congress Center GmbH, Berlin, Germany. The target audience for this medical event is specialists and health care professionals sharing the same interest in geriatric medicine, mainly geriatricians, internists, general practitioners, neurologists and physicians from every medical discipline, therapists, nurses, gerontologists, researchers and scientists, pharmacists, nutritionists as well at anyone taking care of the elderly patients, in order to understand the social, medical and clinical approach to geriatric diseases.

Main Topics :
• Differentiating ageing and disease in old age
• Tackling immunosenescence in geriatric patients
• Evolving definitions: sarcopenia and malnutrition
• Innovations in sarcopenia therapy
• Assessment and treatment of multi-morbidity
• Individualized polypharmacy – True progress?
• Innovations of pharmacotherapy in geriatric patients
• Traumatic brain injuries after falls
• The changing spectrum of fragility fractures
• Has the future arrived? – IT-based diagnostics versus standard CGA
• Modifying intensive care and the emergency department for older patients
• Rehabilitation in patients with cognitive and emotional disorders
• Palliative care in persons with dementia
• New concepts of care for geriatric patients in the community

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.