The 7th International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) will be hosted in Barcelona on 27-28 of April, 2017. The event will gather distinguished representatives from national centres for health, research institutes, industry, and researchers from academia to share their expertise. This year, ICFSR will focus on topics such as the biology of frailty […]
The European Summit took place on 6-7 December and gathered around 2000 participants in 2 days. This year the event concentrated on the topic “Digital transformation of care”. In his opening speech, Roberto Viola, Director-General, DG Connect, insisted that this transformation delivers more opportunities since the cost for healthcare is constantly increasing, gradually overtaking the […]
On the 27th of October, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II will host SUNFRAIL’s 2nd Transnational Workshop: “Toward a Bio-Psychosocial Model of Frailty: the SUNFRAIL model to improve health outcomes and sustainability”. The workshop will take place in Naples, Italy, gathering all project partners, members of the Advisory Board and invited external experts to discuss common […]
The seventh International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR2017) will take place in Barcelona on 27-28 April 2017. Keynote speakers include: Marco Pahor (Gainesville USA) : “Clinical interventions to avert inflammation, Sarcopenia and frailty” Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas (Getafe, Spain): “Frailty in the clinical scenario: challenges and opportunities” Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft (Madrid, Spain): “Overview of Sarcopenia definitions” Stephen […]
All presentations from the SUNFRAIL Transnational Workshop (22 March, Bologna), are now available following the below links: SUNFRAIL Methodology and discussion, M. Barbolini SUNFRAIL Objectives and Challenges, M. Barbolini How to Identify Good Practices on Frailty and Multimorbidity, L. Calzà Synergies with the EIP AHA Initiative – A3, A. Cano Existing Tools for the Identification […]
The SUNFRAIL Transnational workshop took place in Bologna on 22 March. The full-day event had a busy schedule with experts from the project partner organisations, as well as externally invited speakers, gathering to discuss the scientific definitions and models of frailty and multimorbidity, as well as how the scientific knowledge can be appropriately translated into effective […]
The SUNFRAIL Project participated in the EU Falls Festival 2016, which took place in Bologna, Italy on 23-34 February on the theme “Implementation of Innovation into Policy and Practice”. The event was a great success, gathering more than 200 people from all over the EU. All the material presented during the festival, including the SUNFRAIL […]
On 22 March, the first SUNFRAIL Transnational Workshop will take place in Bologna, Italy. The full-day event will gather all project partners as well as a number of external experts to take stock of the project progress and to immerse into the topics of frailty and multimorbidity in the older population. During the morning session, […]
Interested in the SUNFRAIL project? We are pleased to announce that there is now an information brochure available covering the basic facts about the project, its aims and expected outcomes. The brochure is available here. For a French version, please see here.
