LUMC PhD candidate Daniele Bizzarri will defend his PhD thesis “Metabolomics- and methylomics-based predictors for estimating health and biological aging” on the 11th of September at 14.30 o’clock. You can join in person at the Academiegebouw in Leiden, or via the livestream.
In September, a delegation of LEGend will visit the 20th congress of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) in Valencia, Spain. The theme of this year’s conference is From Healthy Ageing to Complex Needs in Older Adults. Our delegation will consist of >30 members who will contribute to the conference with over 10 presentations.
For more information visit the event website: https://eugms2024.com/
During this interactive training session in the midst of the Leidse Ouderengeneeskunde Dagen, developments will be considered from the perspectives of hospitals, nursing homes, and primary care, with an emphasis on topics where societal issues arise. The theme of this year is once again person-centered, complex care for the elderly, with an in-depth focus on the following subjects:
– Acute elderly care
– The right care in the right place
– Complex home care
– AI and [...]
On Thursday September 5th, the LUMC Centrum voor Ouderengeneeskunde (LCO) and the LUMC Theme Lifecourse Epidemiology and Geroscience (LEGend) will open the New Academic Year 2024-2025. It will be a celebration of academic inspiration and getting together. We warmly invite you to celebrate the start of the new year together with us.
Programme
16.00 hrs: Opening and lecture by Prof. Rudi Westendorp: “Learnings when growing older”
Location: Lecture Hall 1, LUMC or online via this link
Prof. Westendorp [...]
In connection with the promotion of Annelieke Lemeij later in the day, a symposium will be held in the morning of September 26th with the title “Breast cancer in older patients”. Various speakers from both within and outside the country will give presentations. Click here for the program.
The symposium:
Time: Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Place: Lecture Hall 4, main building LUMC
Language: English
The promotion ceremony:
Dissertation: Improving treatment outcomes [...]
Patients are getting older while at the same time undergoing increasingly intensive treatments. This brings up the concept of physical resilience – the ability to recover and adapt after health-related stressors such as surgery or chemotherapy. Identifying physical resilience in older patients may enable more personalized treatment plans, ultimately allowing for better recovery and improved functional outcomes. The first step, however, is being able to measure physical resilience, which is the goal of the TOPFORM study.
Today, the first patient [...]
With this Toolkit, you will know how to design a nursing home garden based on evidence based practice!
The toolkit was developed in collaboration with W E I J D E Tuin – en Landschapsarchitecten.
The research was conducted by UNC-ZH in collaboration with Pieter van Foreest and the Academische Werkplaats Ouderenzorg Limburg.
For more information click here.
LUMC PhD candidate Lian Tijsen will defend her PhD thesis “A Challenging Rehabilitation Environment; CREATE a team self-evaluation tool” on the 11th of September at 11.30 o’clock. You can join in person at the Academiegebouw in Leiden, or via the livestream.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted an international multicenter study on the treatment and recovery of post-COVID-19 patients in geriatric rehabilitation: the EU-COGER study. Over 700 patients across 10 European countries were recruited within one year and were followed up to 6 months past discharge from rehabilitation. Recently, the first two scientific articles based on the EU-COGER study have been published in Age & Ageing and JAMDA. The most important findings are outlined in a factsheet, which you [...]
