English
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- NEWS
- WELCOME LETTER
- ORGANIZERS
- SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
- ABSTRACTS
- INVITED SPEAKERS
- REGISTRATION FEES
- REGISTRATION
- ACCOMMODATION
CONGRESS VENUE
Amadria Park Grand Hotel 4 Opatijska Cvijeta
Ul. Viktora cara Emina 6, 51410 Opatija, Croatia
www.amadriapark.com
REGISTRATION DESK
The Registration Desk will open an hour before the beginning of the sessions and close after the end of the sessions.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Official languages are Croatian and English. Simultaneous translation will not be provided.
LETTER OF INVITATION
Organizing Committee will issue the Letter of Invitation upon request, to be used for visa application and for your employer. Please send your request to the Congress Agency e-mail: goran.grbic@btravel.pro
OFFICIAL BADGES
All registered participants with registration fee paid will get Congress badges and are obliged to wear them during the scientific and social program.
CONGRESS EXHIBITION
During the Congress, an industrial exhibition of medical manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies will be organized in the congress area. More information about participate to the Congress are available at Offer for sponsors and exhibitors. Companies interested in advertising their products at the exhibition and in the congress materials, Final Program with abstracts, should contact the Congress Agency.
INSURANCE
The Organizing Committee cannot accept responsibility for accidents or damage to participants or accompanying persons before, during or after the Congress. Participants are urged to make their own arrangements with respect to travel and health insurance. Upon registration, the participant accepts this provision.
MOBILE PHONES
Participants are kindly requested to keep their mobile phones in off position in the rooms where scientific sessions are being held.
INTERNET
Internet services will be available to all participants during the Congress.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
A Certificate of Attendance will be issued to all registered participants (Croatian Medical Chamber and Croatian Nursing Council)
IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
Congress dates: SPRING 2021.
Abstracts submission deadline: ___________
Abstract acceptance deadline: ___________
Lower registration fee deadline: ___________
Accommodation reservation deadline: ___________
Dear experts for health care of the elderly, dear colleagues,
the necessity of continuing education in gerontology and geriatrics, including the interdisciplinary gerontological, intersectoral cooperation from the health care system, social welfare, labor and pension funds, education, science, tourism, culture, ecology and sustainable economy, becomes a continuous imperative of the 4th Croatian Congress on Gerontology and Geriatric with international participation, to be held in Opatija in Spring 2021.
The main organizers are the Croatian Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics of the Croatian Medical Association (President: Academician Zijad Durakovic) and Referral Center of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for Health Care of the Elderly – Department of Public Health Gerontology, Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Publich Health (head: Ass. Professor Branko Kolaric, MD, PhD)
As current and future health care of the elderly becomes the main indicator of progress or failure to protect the health of the entire population, we are inviting you for an active contribution to the prestigious 4th Croatian Congress on Gerontology and Geriatric with international participation.
With best regards and looking forward to seeing you soon!
Assistant Professor Spomenka Tomek-Roksandic, MD, PhD
Congress President
Zvonimir Šostar, MD, PhD
Congress Committee President
Professor Branko Kolaric, MD, PhD
Scientific Committee President
ORGANIZERS
» Croatian Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics, Croatian Medical Association
» Referral Center of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for Health Care of the Elderly – Department of Public Health Gerontology, Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health
COORGANIZERS
» City Office for Health of the City of Zagreb
» City office for social protection and people with disabilities of the City of Zagreb
» Department of Medical Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
» University of Zagreb
» Libertas International University
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
» Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia
» Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia
» Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
» Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy of the Republic of Croatia
» The World Health Organization Head of the Country Office
» City of Zagreb
CONGRESS COMMITTEE
President: Zvonimir Šostar
Members: Karmen Arnaut, Ivančica Balenović, Ljiljana Batič, Snježana Benko, Ivana Brkić, Snježana Bubenik, Bruno Cvetković, Tanja Ćorić, Pavo Ćorluka, Tajana Dajčić, Maja Deković Mondekar, Jasminka Dlesk-Božić, Aleksandar Džakula, Romana Galić, Slavica Garić, Helena Glibotić Kresina, Iva Jelačić, Melita Jelavić, Josip Jelić, Nikolina Jukić Peladić, Dražen Jurković, Štefica Karačić, Dunja Kuliš, Domagoj Kronstein, Zrinka Mach, Manuela Maltarić, Karolina Martinuš, Maja Miloš, Stela Mravak, Ante Nakić, Andreja Ninić, Marija Orlić, Eva Pavić, Marija Penava Šimac, Krunoslav Peter, Dubravka Pezelj Duliba, Ivana Portolan Pajić, Sanja Predavec, Marijana Prevendar, Ivana Prga, Ana Puljak, Hrvoje Radašević, Cecilija Rotim, Dalma Sajko, Dunja Skoko-Poljak, Milica Sučić, Mirela Šentija Knežević, Vesna Štefančić, Jasna Tucak, Irena Vadlja, Maja Vajagić, Miroslav Venus, Ljiljana Vrbić, Inga Vučica
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
President: Branko Kolarić
Members: Tomislav Benjak, Antonija Balenović, Lovorka Bilajac, Nenad Bogdanović, Jasna Bošnir, Krunoslav Capak, Venija Cerovečki-Nekić, Ivan Čipin, Jasminka Despot Lučanin, Zijad Duraković, Aleksandar Džakula, Igor Filipčić, Miroslav Hanževački, Vjekoslav Jeleč, Antoinette Kaić-Rak, Josipa Kern, Branko Kolarić, Željko Krznarić, Mirjana Kujundžić Tiljak Marija Kušan-Jukić, Ratko Mađarević, Jasna Mesarić, Ninoslav Mimica, Marijeta Mišigoj-Duraković, Jadranka Mustajbegović, Petra Nola Fuchs, Tajana Pavić, Marina Polić Vižintin, Krešimir Rotim, Ivica Rubelj, Tomislav Rukavina, Silvija Rusac, Nina Smolej-Narančić, Šime Smolić, Ana Stavljenić-Rukavina, Tatjana Škarić-Jurić, Goran Šimić, Ana Štambuk, Danijela Štimac, Vanja Tešić, Nada Tomasović- Mrčela, Spomenka Tomek-Roksandić, Jure Toplak, Branko Vitale, Jasmina Vraneš, Darija Vranešić Bender, Gorka Vuletić, Mara Županić, Ivana Živoder
VENUE
Amadria Park, Conference park 25/7, Opatija, Hrvatska
www.amadriapark.com
4th CROATIAN CONGRESS ON GERONTOLOGY
AND GERIATRICS with international participation
Opatija, Croatia, Sring 2021.
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TOPICS AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
1. GERONTOLOGY IN CROATIA AND THE WORLD
• Theories of aging
• Genetics of aging
• Physiological, biological and chronological aging
• Psychology of aging
• Psychosocial characteristics of aging
• Promotion of healthy, active and productive aging
• Organization of gerontological activity
• Gerontological public health indicators
• Organization of gerontological-public health care
• Nutrition for the elderly and dietary supplements
• Theories of geriatric health care
• Quality and sustainable development of gerontological-public health service
• Information and communication technology in gerontology
• Geroprophylaxis (primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary prevention programs for the elderly)
• Menopause and Andropause
• Falls in old age
• Suicide in old age
• Legal defense for the elderly – protection of rights (prevention and suppression of violence against the elderly)
• Ageism
• Longevity
• Lifelong health care with a focus on healthy, active aging
2. GERIATRICS AND GERIATRIC HEALTH CARE IN CROATIA AND THE WORLD
• Leading geriatric public health problems:
– Circulatory diseases
– Malignant diseases
– Respiratory diseases
– Injuries
– Diabetes
– Malnutrition at old age
• Geriatric nursing care:
– Best practices
– Four degrees of geriatric nursing care
– Prevention and care of decubitus
• Psychogeriatry:
– Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
– Depression
• Priority role of family medicine team in care for the elderly
• Palliative-geriatric care and long-term care for the elderly: resources and needs
• Patronage service for the elderly
• Nutritional characteristics of geriatric patients
• Microbial challenges in geriatric patients: hospital infections and antibioticresistance
• Gerontostomatology
• Dermatology in geriatrics
• Ophthalmology and optometry in geriatrics
• Pharmacotherapy in geriatrics
• Specialization in geriatrics
3. INTERSECTOR APPROACH
• Anthropology of aging and longevity
• Social gerontology
• Challenges of social care for the elderly
• The institutional and non-institutional care for the elderly
• Foster care for the elderly
• Older people with disabilities
• Physical therapy and rehabilitation
• Occupational therapy for the elderly
• Gerontokinesiology
• Logopaedia
• Gerontonutrition
• Formal caregivers in geriatrics
• Housekeeper for the elderly
• Elderly volunteering
• The role of civil society in the care of the elderly
• Care for the health and quality of life of formal and informal caregivers
• Stress of informal caregivers
4. ECONOMIC ANSWERS TO THE POPULATION AGING CHALLENGES
• Challenges of the demographic transition
• Extending life and working life
• Volunteering in the service of the elderly
• The economic consequences of demographic aging
• Pension reform and pension funds in Croatia
• Basic and supplementary health insurance
• Long-term care insurance
• Death grants
• Rationalization of geriatric health care costs
• Gerontological public health management
• Gerontotechnology
• Housing architecture for the elderly – smart cities and smart houses
• Health and medical tourism for the elderly
• Gerontoservices
• Preparations for retirement
5. AESTHETICS OF AGING: BEAUTY, ADJUSTMENTS AND LOSSES
• Climate change and their impact on the health of elderly
• Spirituality and aging
• Lifelong learning
• Transgenerational relations
• Sexuality in older age
• Dermatology and cosmetology
• Aesthetic surgery and stomatology
• Stress and aging
• Loneliness and aging
• Poverty and aging
• Grieving
• Death and dying
• Local community and the elderly – mutual cooperation
IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
Congress dates: SPRING 2021.
Abstracts submission deadline: ____________
Abstract acceptance deadline: ____________
Lower registration fee deadline: ____________
Accommodation reservation deadline: ____________
INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING AND SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS
Participants who would like to present an oral or poster presentation should submit an abstract for consideration by the Scientific Committee. The abstracts should be submitted in Croatian or English, and will be published in the Supplement of the indexed journal ‘Liječnički vjesnik’. The Scientific Committee will determine whether the abstract will be accepted for an oral or poster presentation.
The presenting author is required to ensure that all co-authors are aware of the content of the abstract before submission to the Congress agency BTravel and of all communications thereafter.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS
• presentations should be in Croatian or English
• computers onsite will be PC’s. Presentations should be in Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT), windows-based
environment. Macintosh users who want to submit presentations must export their presentation as a MS PowerPoint file
• PowerPoint format: A4 format or 4:3
• file format: Onsite organizers operating systems will include Microsoft Office 2016 and Windows 7. The following file formats are supported: .ppt or .pptx
• videos: Make sure that you compress the video. There are numerous different file formats and codecs, we recommend using .mp4 videos – H.264 video and AAC audio (MPEG-4 AVC). Other supported file formats are .mpg, .wmv and .avi
• projector format: The standard format of the projectors in the congress rooms will be 4:3
• speakers are kindly asked to prepare their presentations at least one hour before their lecture in the preparation area and give them to the Congress agency technician
• technical personnel will test-check the oral presentation(s) for compatibility and speakers will be given a final
opportunity for any last minute modifications
• speakers are kindly asked to give the technical personnel any special instructions they may have when in the
preparation room, not during the lecture
• please use the following PowerPoint template to create a presentation – soon!
POSTERS
• posters can be written in Croatian and English
• poster dimensions: 80 cm (width) x 100 cm (height)
• elements: title, list of authors, poster text (introduction, elaboration, conclusion), literature
• recommendations:
– avoid shading, underlining, and mixing different types of letters
– avoid capital letters
Posters will be displayed on billboards in the exhibition area throughout the duration of the Congress. The authors must be present next to their posters during the poster viewing in time according to the program. Posters should be brought in person. Supplies for poster mounting will be provided by the Congress agency.
Best poster award
The jury will award the author of the best poster. The award is a weekend package for two persons at the Amadria Park Grand Hotel 4 Opatijska Cvijeta, Croatia during a before agreed period. Oral or poster presentation is not possible if the registration fee is not paid (excluding invited speakers).
Iza is a social anthropologist and a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Her ethnographic research, continuing from 2008, among older Japanese in the city of Osaka explores sociality, ethics, hope and happiness. She has co-edited a book Values of happiness: Towards an anthropology of purpose published by University of Chicago Press. Her recent book, entitled Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from and aging Japan has recently been published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
Alma Mihaljevic-Peles was born in Karlovac, Croatia, in 1959. She received the Medical doctor degree and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine,Croatia, in 1984 and 1996, respectively. Since 1984 she was a Research Fellow at the University of Zagreb and received from 1985-1986 Postgraduate training in clinical pharmacology. In 1989, she finished master thesis on the topic: The possibilities of finding early and late extrapyramidal side effects in treatment with neuroleptics. From 1987 to 1990 she passed training in psychiatry and became psychiatrist. She finished doctoral dissertation in 1996 on the topic: The importance of lowered arylsulphatase A activity in the diagnostics and development of psychiatric disorders. Presently, she is a Fulltime Professor at the Chair of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology on the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb and the Head of the Department for Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb. She is mainly interested in the field of clinical psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry. She has published over 200 scientific and professional papers and has a rich experience in participating in numerous clinical studies with different drugs. She is certificated rater for different psychiatric rating scales, principal investigator in the several scientific projects and co-lecturer in various postgraduate courses.
Prof. Ninoslav Mimica, MD, MSc, DSc, psychiatrist, primarius, IFAPA, born in 1959 in Zagreb, Croatia. He is subspecialist from the field of biological psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and social psychiatry. Currently in the position of full professor and senior scientist, re-elected. He is employed at the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, currently Head of the Department for Biological Psychiatry and Psychogeriatrics. He is leading the Reference Center of Ministry of Health of Republic of Croatia for Alzheimer’s Disease and Old Age Psychiatry. He is president of Croatian Association for Alzheimer’s Disease and Old Age Psychiatry, CroMA, vice-president of Alzheimer Croatia and founder of the Croatian Alzheimer’s Alliance.
M.Sc. in Physics in Zagreb, (Croatia, 1977); Ph.D. in Quantum Physics (UK, 1982). After 3 years in France, India, Australia and USA, since 1986. He is permanently at the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland). Main research on complexity correlations and (macroscopic) quantum phenomena. A textbook on superconductivity (1992) used in ≈4000 courses worldwide! More than >235 cc articles, 35 reviews, 25 edited professional books, co-organizer of 35 international conferences and 7 summer schools. More than hundred colloquia in leading institutions worldwide and as many invited conference talks; hundreds of public lectures. Adviser to 36 government agencies and advanced high-tech companies worldwide. Tesla World Foundation President.
Professor Silvia Rusac, PhD, is a social worker specialized in supervision in psychosocial work and with a dissertation in social gerontology. She currently holds the position of full professor at the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Dr. Rusac is a member of several national advisory boards, as well as a frequent speaker on the topic of elder abuse for health and social care authorities, practitioners, NGOs and others. Her current research activity is on elder abuse in family and elder abuse in residential care settings. During the last decade she has been a presenter, lecturer, invited speaker and organizer at numerous conferences, symposia and courses for social workers, physicians and volunteers in the fields of gerontology.
Aleksandar Štulhofer (Zagreb, 1962.) is Professor of Sociology and Head of Sexology Unit. He has published internationally, including all major sex research journals (PubMed lists75 of his papers). His books include Nevidljiva ruka tranzicije (Zagreb, 2000.), HIV/AIDS i mladi – Hrvatska 2005. (Zagreb, 2006.), and the edited volume Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia (New York, 2005.). In the 2005-2014 period he served as WHO consultant working in the Eastern Mediterranean region on bio-behavioral HIV surveillance. Dr. Štulhofer is full member of the International Academy of Sex Research and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Federation of Sexology. He serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and Sexuality and Culture. He is a founding member of the Croatian Association for Sex Therapy. In 2016, Dr Štulhofer was awarded with the European Federation of Sexology Gold Medal for scientific contribution to sexual health in Europe.| PARTICIPANTS</font color> | Early registration fee | Late registration fee |
| Medical doctors, specialists and other experts (social workers, psychologists…) | € 200,00 | € 250,00 |
| *Croatian Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics members | € 160,00 | € 200,00 |
| Nurses, medical technicians and health workers of other professional profiles (high school and college education) | € 105,00 | € 130,00 |
| Residents and postgraduates | € 80,00 | € 90,00 |
| Undergraduate students retired medical doctors | Free of charge | Free of charge |
| Daily fee | € 80,00 | € 90,00 |
| Exhibitor firm representative (at the exhibition stand) | € 105,00 | € 130,00 |
* does not apply to students of masters and doctoral studies
VAT is included.
Registration fee for medical doctors, specialists, social workers, psychologists, residents, postgraduates,
nurses, medical technicians, exhibitor firm representatives includes:
• admission to all congress sessions,workshops, poster and exhibition areas, congress materials (Final Program, Supplement of „Liječnički vjesnik“
with abstracts, congress bag, certificate of attendance, points of professional chambers) admission to the opening ceremony, refreshment in breaks
*Note: Croatian Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics members will confirm their status by presenting their membership card at the registration desk.
Free registration for students and retirees includes:
• admission to all congress sessions, poster and exhibition areas congress materials (Final Program, Supplement of „Liječnički vjesnik“ with abstracts, certificate of attendance, admission to the opening ceremony, refreshment in breaks
*Note: Registration form must be accompanied by documentation or a letter of the Department Head confirming the student status. The letter should be printed on the department letterhead and addressed to the congress agency BTravel.
CANCELLATION AND REFUNDS
Terms of cancellation
• All cancellations of Congress registration, which must include your full bank account details, should be sent in writing to the Congress Agency BTravel Ltd. Cancellations received no later than ____________ will be refunded in full except VAT and administrative fee of 10% after the Congress.
• Cancellations received after ___________ will not be refunded.
The accommodation is organized at hotels: Grand Hotel 4 Opatijska Cvijeta**** and Hotel Gardenija*** with special congressional prices. Prices are expressed per person per day (VAT is included in the prices, and sojourn tax):
For booking accommodation and payment please contact Congress agency.
CONTACT
CONGRESS SECRETARIAT
Referral Center of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for Health Care of the Elderly – Department of Public Health Gerontology, Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health
Contact persons: Stela Mravak, Dalma Sajko, Manuela Maltarić, Ante Nakić
P: +385 (0)1 4696 153
T: +385 (0)1 / 4696 164
@: javnozdravstvena.gerontologija@stampar.hr
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