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European Journal of Ageing
Published in: European Journal of Ageing 1/2009

01-03-2009 | Critical Positions in Ageing Research

European silver paper on the future of health promotion and preventive actions, basic research, and clinical aspects of age-related disease

Authors: Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, Alain Franco, Pascal Sommer, Jean-Pierre Baeyens, Ewa Jankowska, Adriana Maggi, Piotr Ponikowski, Andrzej Ryś, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Andrzej Milewicz

Published in: European Journal of Ageing | Issue 1/2009

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Ageing of populations is one of the highest achievements of humankind, and Europe is leading this successful story. However, ageing and age-related disease is also a mounting challenge for individuals, for health care systems and for biological, psychosocial, epidemiological, medical and public health sciences. Many scientists from every single area of knowledge and science are actively working to better understand ageing and tackle the challenges that it brings to twenty-first century individuals. …
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Gerontology, the science of ageing, is classically divided into four sub-disciplines: (1) social sciences of ageing, (2) psychology of ageing, (3) biology of ageing, and (4) clinical gerontology (within which are positioned the disciplines of geriatric medicine, old age psychiatry, gerontological nursing, among others). It deals with the globality of normal ageing in the first instance.
 
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Title
European silver paper on the future of health promotion and preventive actions, basic research, and clinical aspects of age-related disease
Authors
Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft
Alain Franco
Pascal Sommer
Jean-Pierre Baeyens
Ewa Jankowska
Adriana Maggi
Piotr Ponikowski
Andrzej Ryś
Katarzyna Szczerbińska
Andrzej Milewicz
Publication date
01-03-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
European Journal of Ageing / Issue 1/2009
Print ISSN: 1613-9372
Electronic ISSN: 1613-9380
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-009-0108-x

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