Hungary
Magyar Gerontológiai és Geriátriai Társaság
Hungarian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (HAGG)
Some facts on demography and geriatrics in Hungary…
Total population: 9 830 485
Percentage above 65 Yr: 12,5%
Percentage above 80 Yr: 4,2% (70,5% women)
Aging Index: 126,1
Number of physicians: 35.854
Number of geriatricians: 109
Total number of hospital beds: 41.754
Number of geriatric beds: 175
Geriatrics is recognised as a...
- speciality since 2000
- subspeciality since – no data
Geriatric medicine is found in...
- out-patient care settings
- post-acute rehabilitation hospitals/clinics
- nursing homes or long term care facilities
- Active Geriatric Division in Hospital
Members of the society
Total number of Members: 84
Geriatricians: 64
GP’s: 4
Internists: 60
Nurses: 0
Other therapists: 20
Other activities…
- Regional and nationwide: biannual scientific meeting
- Congress organized by our Society: every 2 years
- Aging sections within the confines of many other societies’ Congresses (cardiology, hypertension, diabetology, oncology and neurology-stroke)
Ongoing nationwide programs including:
- innovation of social-care system
- expansion inside full-time institutions
- development of a national strategic program
List of geriatric chairs and research centres in Hungary
- Budapest, Semmelweis University Medical School: Prof. Miklós Tóth (prof. Béla Székács)
- Debrecen, Debrecen University, Faculty of Medicine; Prof. Gyula Bakó
- Szeged, Albert Szent-György University Medical School; Sándor Benkő MD, PhD, med. habil. MD
- Pécs, Pécs University Faculty of Medicine (Inst. Translational Medicine/Dept. Pathophysiol./Gerontology) Erika Petervári habil MD
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Contact details
The president of the Society:
Béla Székács
General Assembly member in the EuGMS:
Ádám Lelbach habil MD PhD
Website: www.idosgyogyaszat.hu
(website under partial construction)
News
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