Track Categories

The track category is the heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the conference printed matters if accepted. During the submission process, you will be asked to select one track category for your abstract.

Track 1 : Molecular Ageing

As the burden of ageing-associated disorders is increasing, so is our understanding of the molecular and cellular changes that occur during ageing. This knowledge has important medical and social implications as it has the potential of being exploited to delay ageing and the onset of ageing-associated disorders. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology presents a series of Reviews and Comments on the current understanding of ageing at the molecular level, and on how targeting these ageing-associated changes might increase health span and lifespan.

Track 2 : Cellular senescence

Cellular senescence refers to a state of stable cell cycle arrest in which proliferating cells become resistant to growth-promoting stimuli, typically in response to DNA damage. Senescence was first described by Leonard Hay flick upon the observation that human fetal fibroblasts eventually stopped dividing, but remained viable and metabolically active after prolonged time in culture. It is now generally accepted that only transformed malignant cells replicate indefinitely, while non-transformed cells do not, with the exception of cell types with stem-like properties. These include endogenous germline and somatic stem cells, in addition to embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells developed under controlled in vitro conditions.

Track 3 : Ageing & Anthropology

Anthropology & Aging is the official journal of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE), a nonprofit organization established in 1978 as a multidisciplinary group dedicated to the exploration and understanding of aging within and across the diversity of human cultures.

Track 4 : Ageing And Cognition

Measurable changes in cognition occur with normal aging. The most important changes are declines in cognitive tasks that require one to quickly process or transform information to make a decision, including measures of speed of processing, working memory, and executive cognitive function. A recent proposal called the Scaffolding Theory of Cognitive Aging postulates that functional changes with aging are part of a lifespan process of compensatory cognitive scaffolding that is an attempt to alleviate the cognitive declines associated with aging.

Track 5 : Ageing Technology

The biggest benefits technology will have on ageing and longevity is through advances in preventative care. Artificial Intelligence/machine learning will play a key role in running simulations on data, captured through wearable as well as patient EMR. The potential of advanced technology solutions to deliver evidence-based healthcare recommendations at the point of care and helping decide the optimal course of treatment is huge. Additionally, these can be used for creating customized wellness programs (such as by creating a treatment approach that addresses both medical and behavioral conditions) as well as for giving care reminders and alerts at the right time.

Track 6 : Ageing Disorders

Aging disorders is a gradual, continuous process of natural change that begins in early adulthood. During early middle age, many bodily functions begin to gradually decline. People do not become old or elderly at any specific age. Traditionally, age 65 has been designated as the beginning of old age. But the reason was based in history, not biology.

Cardiovascular Disease.
Cerebrovascular Disease
High Blood Pressure
Cancer
Diabetes
Parkinson's Disease
Dementia
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Track 7 : Psychiatric Disorders And Ageing

Psychosis is more common than previously supposed in elderly populations without dementia. It is unclear whether the frequency of these disorders increases or decreases with age. Clinical expression of psychiatric disorders in old age may be different from that seen in younger age groups, with less and often milder symptoms. Concurrently, comorbidity between different psychiatric disorders is immense, as well as comorbidity with somatic disorders. Cognitive function is often decreased in people with depression, anxiety disorders, and psychosis, but whether these disorders are risk factors for dementia is unclear.

Track 8 : Evolution Of Ageing

Enquiry into the evolution of ageing, or aging, aims to explain why a detrimental process such as ageing would evolve, and why there is so much variability in the lifespans of organisms. The classical theories of evolution suggest that environmental factors, such as predation, accidents, disease, starvation, ensure that most organisms living in natural settings will not live until old age, and so there will be very little pressure to conserve genetic changes that increase longevity. Natural selection will instead strongly favor genes which ensure early maturation and rapid reproduction, and the selection for genetic traits which promote molecular and cellular self-maintenance will decline with age for most organisms

Track 9 : Nutrition Care & Standards Of Living

The nutritional care of medical patients is puzzlement about the divide that exists between the theoretical knowledge about the importance of the diet for ill persons, and the common failure to incorporate nutritional aspects in the treatment and care of the patients. The purpose is to clarify existing problems in the nutritional care of Danish medical inpatients, to elucidate how the nutritional care for these inpatients can be improved, and to analyses the costs of this improvement.

Track 10 : Life Extension Science

Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled limit of 125 years. Several researchers in the area, along with "life extensionists", "immortalists" or "longevists" postulate that future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation, stem cells, regenerative medicine, molecular repair, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals and organ replacement will eventually enable humans to have indefinite lifespans through complete rejuvenation to a healthy youthful condition. The ethical ramifications, if life extension becomes a possibility, are debated by bioethicists.

Track 11 : Geriatrics and Gerontology

Gerontology and geriatrics, scientific and medical disciplines, respectively, that are concerned with all aspects of health and disease in the elderly, and with the normal aging process. Gerontology is the scientific study of the phenomena of aging, by which is meant the progressive changes that take place in a cell, a tissue, an organ system, a total organism, or a group of organisms with the passage of time. Aging is part of the development sequence of the entire life span, from prenatal growth to senescence. Gerontology, however, is concerned primarily with the changes that occur between the attainment of maturity and the death of the individual and with the factors that influence these changes.

Track 12 : Clinical Trials Of Ageing

The risk of morbidity and mortality increases exponentially with age. Chronic inflammation, accumulation of DNA damage, dysfunctional mitochondria, and increased senescent cell load are factors contributing to this. Mechanistic investigations have revealed specific pathways and processes which, proposedly, cause age-related phenotypes such as frailty, reduced physical resilience, and multi-morbidity.

Ageing Research and Geriatric Medicine

Theme: Digital Equality for all Ages

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