European Silver Paper on the future of geriatric medicine

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Speakers from several European countries and organisations were invited to Wroclaw, Poland, on 11 - 13 September, 2008 to participate in an 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 parallelle 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 finalizing a Silver Paper describing the current European situation in basic biological ageing research, and in health promtion, 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) our 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 Silver Paper has been endorsed by 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

The Silver Paper can be downloaded in PDF-format in English

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The Silver Paper can be downloaded  in PDF-format in Espanol

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The Silver Paper can be downloaded in PDF-format in French 

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A. Franco, Editorial (French version). La Revue de Gériatrie, 5 March 2009.

L’European Silver Paper”, un document politique original

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The Silver Paper can be downloaded  in PDF-format in Czech

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The Silver Paper can be downloaded in Hungarian here

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The Silver Paper can be downloaded in Finnish here