Congress of Gerontologists
More than 1000 people took part in the Congress on Gerontology
The Second All-Russian Congress on Gerontology and Geriatrics was held in Moscow on April 27-28, 2017 under the auspices of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the Russian Association of Gerontologists and Geriatricians, with the support of the Society of Geriatric Medicine of the European Union, the International Society of Vascular Health, as well as the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation. According to the organizers' press release, more than 1,000 people took part in the congress.
Currently, in the context of the growing life expectancy of the country's citizens, the Government of the Russian Federation pays special attention to the development of geriatric care, as well as to the expansion of international cooperation in this area. That is why the congress has become a unique event in the field of Russian geriatrics and gerontology.
Its opening was symbolic and reflected the fundamental principle of the development of effective geriatric care – the unity of interdepartmental cooperation, education and science. The participants were addressed by official representatives of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, Chief Geriatrician of the Ministry of Health of Russia O.N.Tkacheva, first President of the Russian Association of Gerontologists and Geriatricians Academician V.N.Shabalin, President of the International Society of Vascular Health and Aging, Academic Director of the Society of Geriatric Medicine of the European Union Professor A.Benetos.
The Congress brought together all the links necessary for the development of geriatric care – representatives of education and science, professional medical and expert circles, doctors of various specialties and nurses, social workers, representatives of public organizations and businesses. Such an association reflects the priority tasks of the formation of geriatrics: the creation of a unified system of professional training of geriatric specialists, uniting not only medical, but also social workers at all levels, all those involved in the process of providing medical and social geriatric care.
The geography of the congress expanded: representatives of France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Israel, Italy, Japan, and Canada took part in it.
During the central event of the Congress – the plenary session "Modern concepts of gerontology and geriatrics" – leading experts from France, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Japan. An overview of the pilot project of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on the organization of geriatric care in our country "Territory of care" was also presented here.
The scientific program of the Congress, developed with the support of the Society of Geriatric Medicine of the European Union and the International Society of Vascular Health and Aging, combined the topics of clinical and fundamental gerontology. Leading Russian scientists and clinicians from N.I.Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, State Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russian Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Northwestern State Medical University I.M.Mechnikov, Endocrinological Research Center, Palliative Medicine Center, Laurent University (France), Medical University of Brighton and Sussex (Great Britain), the University of Verona (Italy), Erasmus University (the Netherlands), the National Center of Geriatrics and Gerontology of Japan.
Clinical problems were widely covered – issues of multimorbidity, cardiogeriatrics, neurogeriatrics, modern approaches to geriatric outpatient and palliative care, rehabilitation and long-term care. Fundamental aspects of gerontology attracted much attention: molecular genetic and cellular mechanisms of aging, translational medicine, the search for ways to slow down the aging process. A separate scientific symposium was devoted to longevity issues, at which the first results of the Moscow medical and social program "100-year-old citizen" were presented.
A large educational program for secondary medical personnel, unique in form and content, organized by specialists in the training of geriatric nurses from Israel, was also presented.
During the symposium "Geriatrics – medicine with a social component", social and medical workers actively discussed the medical and social problems of geriatrics and ways to improve the interaction between these two integral components of geriatric care.
The participants of the symposium "The role of the activities of public organizations and social entrepreneurship in geriatrics" exchanged work experience and outlined ways to further attract public attention to the problems of the elderly.
During the work of the profile commission, the reports of the regions on the implementation of the pilot project of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation "Territory of Care" were heard, and a plan for the implementation of scientific projects was presented: "Rigidity – fragility", registers of acute coronary syndrome in persons 80 years and older, atrial fibrillation in the elderly and senile age, the register super-long-livers.
The report of the working groups on the preparation of sections of national clinical recommendations related to geriatric aspects of medical care was heard. The texts of the sections "Obesity in the elderly", "Features of comorbid pathology in the elderly", "Features of prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly and senile", prepared for the relevant national clinical recommendations, were approved.
The congress ended with an extraordinary congress of the Russian Association of Gerontologists and Geriatricians. The report on the work of the RAGG was presented by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.N. Shabalin. In accordance with the charter of the RAGG, the President was re-elected (Professor O.N.Tkacheva became the new president of the RAGG) and the governing bodies of the RAGG. The Congress adopted the appeal of the RAGG in The Society of Geriatric Medicine of the European Union on affiliated membership in this organization.
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