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- European Silver Paper on the future of geriatric medicine
Experts from several European countries and organisations were invited to Wroclaw, Poland, on 11 - 13 September, 2008 to participate in a European summit on The Future of Health Promotion and Preventive Actions, Basic Research, and Clinical Aspects of Age-Related Disease. The meeting was an official European Summit under the French EU Presidency.
The summit had 3 parallel sessions covering Biology of Ageing, Health Promotion and Preventive Actions, and Clinical Care, where speakers presented current knowledge on various topics. After round table discussions followed by a final discussion in plenum, the EUGMS had the leading role of drafting and finalising a Silver Paper describing the current European situation in basic biological ageing research, and in health promotion, preventive actions, and clinical care for older people, as well as describing the recommendations for future actions.
It includes recommendations on most (if not all) the main activities, including promotion of geriatric medicine, creating geriatric medicine departments in universities, an EMEA Geriatric Medicine Committee, and a European Institute on Ageing.
The European Silver Paper has been endorsed by the following 5 organisations:
· The European Union Geriatric Medicine Society
· The International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology – European Region
· The European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry
· The International Society for Gerontechnology
· The International Society for the Study of the Aging Male
- Priorities for Elderly Safety in Europe - Agenda for Action
In the framework of a EU-sponsored project a group of experts in the field of safety of older people, including members of the EuroSafe Task Force, launched a policy document titled "Priorities for Elderly Safety in Europe - Agenda for Action", in November 2005.
The aim of this document is to convince leading politicians and government decision makers across Europe to enhance injury prevention and safety promotion activities addressing older people. Evidence-based best practices show that it is possible to reduce injuries among older people by cost effective methods. By doing so, the quality of life for many older people will be significantly improved and a large proportion of unnecessary health care expenditures will be avoided.
Read more at: http://www.euroipn.org/eunese/policy%20documents.htm
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