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The mass ageing of our populations has been one of the crowning achievements of the end of the second millennium. This ageing has also brought challenges in terms of a new order of complexity in ensuring the health of the ageing populations. Geriatric medicine has developed to meet this challenge, and has been proven to be an efficient and cost-effective development.

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Action Plan on organ donation

In December 2008 the European Commission adopted...

International group recommends screening all persons over 70 years for frailty

Doctors Should Screen for Frailty to Prevent...

EU Health expert panel nominated

On 22 May, an independent expert panel that will...

European Month of the Brain

As reported last month, the Commission has...

ENVI Committee discusses and votes Clinical Trials report

On 29 May, the European Parliament Committee on...

European Parliament hearing on the impact of austerity

Lack of access to medicines is one of the...

Update on chronic disease reflection process

The EU approach to the challenge of chronic...

Austerity

critical report by Médécins du Monde

Impact on chronic disease in old age:

new EU report