Program Topics

The congress program will include keynote presentations, symposia, oral, and poster presentations across the broad range of scientific enquires related to aging, including multidisciplinary aspects within the main streams of

  • Biological Sciences
  • Geriatrics and Medical Sciences
  • Health Sciences
  • Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Humanities and Arts
  • Social Research, Policy, and Practice.

Topics are exemplified in the below more specific list.

  • Active aging
  • Acute care and Treatment
  • Antibiotics and Resistance
  • Age-Friendly Initiatives
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Assessment – Procedures and Methods
  • Assisted Living
  • Attitudes, Ageism, Age Discrimination
  • Bio-behavioral health
  • Biomarkers
  • Business of aging
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Chronic disease and Co-morbidity
  • Caregiving
  • Care incl. values and preferences
  • Civic Engagement and Volunteering
  • Communication and Language
  • Cognitive Health and Neuroscience
  • Critical Gerontology
  • Creativity
  • Critical gerontology
  • Cultural & Cross-national studies
  • Dementia
  • Delirium
  • Demography
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • Design
  • Disability, Frailty Mobility
  • Disease Prevention
  • Economics
  • Employment and Older Workers
  • Education in Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • End-of- life, Palliative Care, Dying and Bereavement
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Environment
  • Epidemiology
  • Ethics and Legal Issues
  • Falls
  • Family and Intergenerational Relations
  • Gender Issues
  • Genetics, Genomics and Gene Expression
  • Health Care
  • Health Promotion
  • Housing and Transportation
  • Immunology and Infections
  • Incontinence
  • Informal Care and Family Caregiving
  • Inter- and Multidisciplinary Research
  • Life Course and Developmental change
  • Loneliness
  • Longevity
  • Long-term Care
  • Mental Health
  • Neurodegenerative conditions (other than dementia)
  • Neuroscience
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition and Food
  • Media
  • Minority, Migration and Diverse Populations
  • Mobility
  • Older Workforce
  • Oral health
  • Osteoporosis
  • Pain and Pain Management
  • Pensions and Pension systems
  • Personality – Coping, Creativity
  • Physical activity & Exercise
  • Pharmacology and Drugs
  • Politics and Policy issues
  • Primary Care
  • Psychosocial interventions
  • Quality of Life, Subjective Well Being
  • Rehabilitation – Occupational and Physical Therapy
  • Research Methods – Primary and Secondary Data Analysis
  • Retirement
  • Sensory loss
  • Sexuality and LGBTQ
  • Sleep
  • Social Networks & Intergenerational Relations
  • Social Services
  • Spirituality and Religion
  • Stroke
  • Technologies and Aging
  • Theory in Gerontology and Aging Studies