European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

From Plan to Action

3 April 2012, Brussels

The Conference "European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing: From Plan to Action" was opened by Vice-President Neelie Kroes  , Commissioner John Dalli   and Commissioner Laszlo Andor  . View the video report of the opening.

The operational conclusions   are available.

The filming of the sessions is available.

Plenary room: Plenary sessions (afternoon session starts at 4:46) and Parallel session on Independent Living and Age Friendly Cities (starts at 2:26) )

Parallel rooms: Parallel session on Prevention and Parallel session on Integrated Care

 

Presentations done by speakers can be downloaded below, under the respective agenda item.

Parallel session on Prevention
  Introduction  230 KB

• Olle Ljungqvist, Co-chair, European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA)
  Call for Action against Malnutrition  1.4 MB
• Jean Pierre Michel, President, European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS)
  Sarcopenia and frailty  389 KB
• Chris Todd, Director, Prevention of Falls Network Europe (Profane)
  Prevention of Falls  322 KB

Parallel session on Integrated Care

• Edwin Poots, Minister of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in the Northern Ireland Executive
  The Northern Ireland Chronic Disease Challenge  255 KB
• Rafael Bengoa, Minister of Health and Consumer affairs of the Basque Government - Basque Country, Spain
  The Basque Health Reform  952 KB
• George Crooks, Clinical Director/Chief Operating Officer, NHS 24, Scotland
  The Key to Success for Scotland  126 KB

Parallel session on Independent Living and Age Friendly Cities

• Alexandre Kalache, President, International Longevity Centre, Brazil
• Sergio Guillen, Technical Coordinator, UniversAAL Project  on open platforms
• Claus F. Nielsen, International Business Development Manager at Delta and member of the AAL Forum programme committee

Afternoon plenary session: Horizontal issues and modalities to join the Partnership

• Maria Iglesia Gomez, Head of Unit Innovation for Health and Consumers, Directorate General for Health and Consumers
• Paul Timmers, Director ICT addressing Societal Challenges, Directorate General Information Society and Media
  From Plan to Action  313 KB