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About Event
Each year, The World Geriatric Summit features the latest innovations,
science, clinical best practices on clinical care, research on aging, and
innovative models of care delivery. The World Geriatric Summit offers
many continuing education sessions, including keynote sessions,
workshops, and plenary sessions. Sessions will include information
about emerging clinical issues, current research in geriatrics,
education, health policy, and delivery of geriatric health care.
Through keynote presentations, workshops and informal conversation,
we will search for answers to a wide range of complex issues such as
● What are the latest medical equipment & technology in geriatric
● What are the challenges in a rapidly aging society
● How to we overcome the contemporary issues in global health care
Keynote Presentations
Prof. Hiroko Akiyama
A social psychologist and professor at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Tokyo and the
former vice president of Science Council of Japan.
Dr Akiyama's specialty is gerontology. She engaged in the National Survey of the Japanese
Elderly, a tracking survey that followed changes in the physical and mental health, economics,
and social relations of senior citizens over 25 years. In recent years, she has been pursuing
social experiment projects that pioneer to re-design communities to meet the needs of the
highly aged society and allow the elderly to successfully ‘age-in-place.’
Dr Roger A. Barker
Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of
Cambridge and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital
His main interest are in the neurodegenerative disorders of the nervous system in particular
Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. He combines basic research looking at novel
therapies (including cell transplants) to treat these conditions with clinically based work on defining
the natural history and heterogeneity of both Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and is
the co-ordinator of the FP& Transneuro project looking at foetal cell grafting in patients with early
PD
Prof. Kaarin J. Anstey
Professor of Psychology at the Australian National University and Director of the Centre for
Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Anstey’s research interests span several domains of healthy and productive ageing,
with a focus on cognitive function. She has worked extensively with longitudinal studies and leads
the PATH Through Life study, a 16-year population-based study of three cohorts, including over
7000 adults, spanning early to late adulthood. She is also working on interventions to reduce the
risk of cognitive decline and dementia and to promote healthy ageing.
3. The World Geriatric Summit 2016 |
Programme at a glance
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Time 15 June 2016 Day 1 Time 16 June 2016 Day 2 Time 17 June 2016 Day 3
0800 Registration of delegates 0900 Keynote Address:
Technology’s role in detecting early
symptoms
0900 Keynote Address:
Asia’s secret to longevity
0900 Welcome address 0930 Plenary Session 1:
Modern medicine and treatment
0930 Plenary Session 1:
Public health preparedness for the
elderly
0915 Keynote Address:
Challenges in a rapidly
ageing society
1030 Tea-break reception 1030 Tea Break Reception
0945 Tea-break reception 1115 Plenary Session 2:
Sharing of experiences based on past
medical cases
1100 Plenary Session 2:
Modern medicine and treatment
1030 Plenary Session 1:
Precision medicine
approach to geriatric
health and healthcare
1200 Panel Discussion:
Sharing of what is a healthy diet for the
elderly
1200 Lunch Reception
1130 Networking Luncheon 1230 Lunch Reception 1300 Workshop
1:
Robot
Medical
Assistance
:
Challenge
s and
Opportuni
ties
Worksho
p 2:
Preclinic
al
Models
to
Evaluate
Age-
Delaying
Drugs
Workshop 3:
Intervention
s to Extend
Human
Health span
1300 Plenary Session 2:
Systems biology of the
aging brain
1330 Break-out Session
1:
Introduction/Dem
onstration of new
medical
equipment
Break-out
Session 2:
How to
communicat
e with the
geriatric
patients
Break-
out
Session
3:
Leading
industri
es in
geriatric
studies
1500 Tea break reception
1330 Plenary Session 3:
What we need to know
about geriatric health
1530 Tea break reception 1530 Panel discussion:
Preventive measures on chronic
diseases
1400 Poster session 1:
Systems Biology of the
Aging Brain
1600 Poster Session:
Research on various illness seen on
elderly
1630 Rest
1500 Tea – break reception 1700 Closing Speech for Day 2 1730 Closing Networking Reception
1600 Panel Discussion:
Geriatric health in the
modern world
1700 Closing speech for Day 1
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4. The World Geriatric Summit 2016 |
Event Ticket @ S$499 per person includes
• Conference registration
• Welcome reception
• Access to all sessions
• Wi-Fi in the conference hall
• Buffet lunches for 3 days
• All tea breaks during the conference
• Poster session and refreshments
• On-site assistance from World Health Staff throughout the conference
• Closing ceremony dinner
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