Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 31/Oct/2025 | ||||
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
D3S1-R1: Community Health, Care, and Nursing Location: Sala Angioina Chair: Guido Iaccarino Voices from the Margins: A Poetic Inquiry into Women’s Ageing in Mountainous Territories University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Becoming a Family and Community Nurse: navigating role identity in a fragmented system. A phenomenological study 1: Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy; 2: Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Italy; 3: Tuscany Foundation “G. Monasterio", Italy; 4: Health Science Interdisciplinary Center, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Communicating Complex Statistical Models to a Public Health Audience: Translating Science into Action with the FARSI Approach. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Mutuality in the relationship between Family and Community Nurses and the Patient-Caregiver Dyad 1: University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy; 2: Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Italy BENE: Brain Exercise and Nutrition in Elderly population University of Padua, Italy |
D3S1-R2: Decoding Aging: From Cohort Studies to Cellular and Molecular Insights Location: Sala Capuana Chair: Giovanna Boccuzzo Personality traits, biochemical markers, and cognitive function: a preliminary analysis from the Novara Cohort Study 1: Department of Translational medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 2: UPO Biobank, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 3: Department of Sustainable Development and Ecologic Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy; 4: Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Novara, Italy; 5: University of Florence, Firenze, Italy The GREAT Project: a biobank collection of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells and patient-derived tumor organoids to advance research in aging, cancer, and personalized therapy 1: Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 2: Pathology Unit, Ospedale Sant'Andrea, Vercelli, Italy; 3: UPO BIOBANK, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 4: Department of Sustainable Development and Ecologic Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy; 5: Gynecology Unit, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy; 6: Pathology Unit, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy; 7: Department of of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 8: General Surgery Division, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy The combination of 4 age-related biomarkers, GDF15, FGF21, sRAGE and NfL, can identify frailty in older community-dwelling people 1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: University of Pisa, Italy; 3: Lobachevsky University, Russia; 4: University of Florence, Italy; 5: Italian National Research Center on Aging, IRCCS INRCA, Italy; 6: Geriatria, Accettazione geriatrica e Centro di ricerca per l’invecchiamento, IRCCS INRCA, Italy; 7: Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy; 8: IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Italy Long-term exposure to air pollution in population-based studies: data quality, metrics, and associations with cardiovascular health. The RoCAV study 1: Research Center in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (EPIMED), Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; 2: Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University, Casamassima, Italy; 3: Research Unit of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli, Italy |
D3S1-R3: Multidomain Interventions for Cognitive and Functional Well-Being in Older Adults Location: Sala Giardino Chair: Patrizia Rovere-Querini Multi-domain Interventions to improve the COgnitive and fUNctional well-being of elderly individuals in residential sTructures: the I COUNT study - baseline evaluations 1: Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Padua, Italy; 2: Geriatrics Unit, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Italy; 3: Department of clinical and experimental science, University of Brescia, Italy; 4: Azienda Speciale Cremona Solidale, Cremona, Italy; 5: Pensionato Piaggi, AltaVita IRA, Padua, Italy Preliminary testing of a new computer-based platform for cognitive stimulation and use in the context of the “Multidomain Interventions to improve the COgnitive and fUNctional well-being of elderly individuals in residential sTructures” (I-COUNT) pilot study 1: Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Padua, Italy; 2: Geriatrics Unit, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Italy; 3: Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy; 4: Pensionato Piaggi, Altavita IRA, Padua, Italy; 5: Department of clinical and experimental science, University of Brescia, Italy; 6: Azienda speciale Cremona Solidale, Cremona, Italy From generation to implementation of evidence: a comparative analysis of 3 RCTs on active ageing in the Age-It Project 1: Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Life Sciences, Health, and Health Professions, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy. Optimizing prevention of hospital-acquired disability through integrated multidomain interventions: the OPTIMAge-IT trial 1: School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; 2: Department of Medicine, S. Anna Hospital, Brescia, Italy; 3: Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Italy; 4: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy; 5: Unit of Geriatric Medicine, IRCCS INRCA, Cosenza, Italy; 6: Unit of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, "Annunziata-Mariano Santo-S. Barbara" Hospital, Cosenza, Italy; 7: Department of Experimental Medicine and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; 8: Geriatric Unit Center for Cognitive Disorders and Dementia, Azienda Ospedaliera Pugliese-Ciaccio, Catanzaro, Italy Prevention interventions stratified by risk of Healthy Aging in older adults: A Systematic Review 1: University of Eastern Piedmont, Department of Translational Medicine, Novara, Italy; 2: University of Turin, Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Turin, Italy |
D3S1-R4: Active Aging and Policies for Older Adults (FLASH) Location: Sala Partenope Chair: Marco Alberio Understanding Implementation of the Family and Community Nurse Role in Northern Italy: A Case Study 1: University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy; 2: Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Italy Explaining differential alignment in rural ageing: being on the track or sliding back? 1: Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy; 2: Università di Torino AGEITALY- A MULTI-PURPOSE STUDY ON ACTIONS, STRATEGIES AND POLICIES PROMOTING ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING IN ALL ITALIAN POLICIES UNIVERSITA' MAGNA GRAECIA, Italy Active ageing policies in Italy: recent developments and future prospects National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (IRCCS-INRCA), Italy Transitions in older age under the lens of active ageing: a scoping review 1: IRCCS INRCA - National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, Ancona, Italy; 2: Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Social participation and active ageing policies: from macro-context to individual responsibilities Università di Bari - Dipartimento FOR.PSI.COM., Italy Designing for ageing well: development of design guidelines of gerontechnology to promote healthy and active ageing University of Florence, Italy Effects of pet ownership on physical performance in older outpatients: preliminary data from a pilot study University of Florence and Division of Geriatric and high-intensity Care Medicine and Geriatric Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy. |
| D3S1-R5: Frailty from a Biological and Clinical Perspective (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: PASQUALE ABETE Integration of clinical, biological and psycho-social variables for a gender-sensitive frailty prediction: study design 1: Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.; 3: Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Italy; 4: Division of Cardiogeriatric Subacute Care, IRCCS Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Milan, Italy; 5: Geriatria, Accettazione Geriatrica e Centro di Ricerca Per l'invecchiamento, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy; 6: Department of Translational Medical Sciences (DISMET), Federico II University, Naples, Italy Longitudinal Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Physical Performance in Older Adults: The Role of Cognitive Function, Frailty, and Sex 1: Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua, Italy; 2: Division of Geriatrics, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; 3: National Research Council, Neuroscience Institute, Padua, Italy; 4: Department of General Psychology (DPG), University of Padua, Padua, Italy Cystic Fibrosis: a new frailty syndrome 1: Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80138 Naples, Italy; 2: Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Scientific Institute of Telese Terme, Telese Terme, BN, Italy; 3: Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80138 Naples, Italy Two Clues, One Risk: Slow Gait and Depressive Symptoms as Early Predictors of Mobility Disability in Frail Older Adults Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Prognostic Value of Anisocytosis (RDW) in Predicting All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults 1: IRCCS INRCA, Italy; 2: University of Calabria, Italy; 3: University of Florence, Italy Telomere Dysfunction as a Molecular Driver of Vascular Aging and Acute Coronary Syndrome: Clinical and In Vitro Insights 1: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy; 2: CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Milan, Italy; 3: Department of General Surgery and Surgical Specialty Paride Stefanini, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy; 4: Interventional Cardiology, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy; 5: CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy Muscle ultrasound thickness of rectus femoris plus vastus intermedius is associated with Intrinsic Capacity in hospitalized older adults Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Traslazionali, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy Metric properties and predictive value of an instrumented version of the SPPB (iSPPB) in persons with stroke outcomes: preliminary results of the iSPPB-stroke study 1: Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Italy; 2: IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi, Florence, Italy; 3: School of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Florence, Italy; 4: School of Physiotherapy, University of Florence, Italy |
D3S1-R6-JO: The Age-It Supplemental Issue The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences Location: Auditorium Chair: Marco Albertini Aging Well in an Aging Society: Italy at the Forefront of Global Aging University of Florence, Italy Presentation for special session Positive Demography: Changing the Perspective on Population Aging University of Florence, Italy Presentation for special session Improving our understanding of the biology of ageing CNR, Italy Presentation for special session Clinical and environmental factors, functional status, and multimorbidity—Stratifying progression and prognosis of multimorbidity, frailty, and disability IRCCS INRCA, Italy Presentation for special session Multidimensional Determinants of Active and Healthy Ageing Trajectories: A Position Paper Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Presentation for special session Caring in the XXI century: Mapping challenges and developing solutions University of Molise, Italy Presentation for special session An Index of Intergenerational Justice: Main Concepts and Preliminary Evidence Bocconi University, Italy Presentation for special session Multicomponent interventions and technologies to reduce the burden of frailty, functional and cognitive decline University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Presentation for special session Leveraging Human-Robot Interaction and Virtual Reality for Digital Biomarkers in Diagnostics and Rehabilitation University of Florence, Italy Presentation for special session Clarifying healthy ageing: Building a common language for policy innovation University of Turin, Italy Presentation for special session Participatory Approach, Dissemination and Implementation of Research on Aging Italian Ageing- Age-It Scarl, Italy Presentation for special session Education and Learning for Active Aging: Promising Practices and Findings Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Presentation for special session Aging in aging societies: The transformation of individuals’ life courses and how we study them University of Bologna, Italy |
D3S1-R7: Work, Economy & Policy for Aging Societies Location: Aula magna centro congressi Unina Chair: Giuliano Resce Out of Sight, Out of Security? Telework, Job Insecurity, and Employability for Aging Workers 1: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean (ISMed); 2: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Research on Sustainable Economic Growth (IRCrES) Ageing and Quality of Life: A Gender Issue? Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy Mapping Pension Beneficiary Disparities across Italian Provinces: A Multidimensional Approach 1: Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Italy; 2: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy L'invecchiamento dei lavoratori e la gestione dell'età anziana sui luoghi di lavoro Università di Napoli Fedetrico II, Italia It is never too late to be green: ageing and awareness of sustainable behaviour 1: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; 2: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; 3: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Marital biography and health later on: which aspects really matter? Outcome-wide evidence from multiple countries. Università di Trento, Italy |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
D3-BM: Coffee Break Location: Lunch Area |
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| 11:00am - 12:15pm |
D3S2-R1: Ageing at Work: wellbeing and organizational practices in Firms Location: Sala Angioina Chair: Eleonora Trappolini Age metastereotypes at work: intergroup outcomes and affective reactions University of Florence, Italy Workers’ wellbeing and organizational Practices in Firms: evidence from Italy Unicatt, Italy Disentangling ageism in labour market service: the implementation of an active labour market policy targeting over 55 1: Università di Firenze, Italy; 2: Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy Age management practices and firm performance: evidence from Italian SME Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy |
D3S2-R2: Biological Aging and Epigenetics Location: Sala Capuana Chair: Giuseppe Passarino Does polypharmacy affect epigenetic aging in older people? Evidence from a longitudinal epigenome-wide methylation study 1: Epidemiology and Prevention Research Unit, IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli, Italy; 2: Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University, Casamassima, Italy; 3: Research Center in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (EPIMED), Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; 4: Genomics and Epigenomics Lab, Area Science Park, Trieste, Italy Documenting the transition of multimorbidity patterns of chronic diseases leading to death at older ages 1: University of Bologna; 2: Emilia-Romagna Region Designing new sustainable care pathways through Lean and Safety Management: the Domus_Rehab case 1: Department of Management Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; 2: Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy; 3: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy Dissecting inflammaging relevance in accelerated aging and age-related outcomes in an Italian cohort 1: Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 2: UPO BIOBANK, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; 3: Department of Sustainable Development and Ecologic Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy; 4: Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Novara, Italy |
D3S2-R3: Active Aging and Policies for Older Adults (2) Location: Sala Giardino Chair: Elisabetta Galeotti Active Ageing in the Italian Regional Prevention Plans. Alignments and Differentiations Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy From Compression to Expansion? Policy Recommendations from Health Surveillance Trends in Cardiovascular and Diabetes Morbidity in the US Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Aligning policies and strategies for the promotion of Healthy and Active ageing: comparison of international and national policies 1: Università del Piemonte orientale, Italy; 2: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano; 3: ECLECTICA+ Ricerca e Formazione Impresa Sociale S.r.L. - Torino; 4: Università Ca’ Foscari - Venezia; 5: Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca - Milano; 6: Università della Magna Grecia - Catanzaro; 7: National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (IRCCS-INRCA) - Ancona Aligning policies and strategies on active and healthy ageing to make countries resilient to the demographic transition: a review of the recommendations of International Agencies 1: Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipart. per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile e la Transizione Ecologica, Italy; 2: Università del Piemonte Orientale, Scuola di Medicina, Italy; 3: Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipart. di Giurisprudenza e Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali |
D3S2-R4: Social, Economic, and Legal Aspects of Aging (FLASH) Location: Sala Partenope Chair: Vincenzo Galasso Care Work for Vulnerable Elderly People in a Comparative Perspective: The Role of the Family Caregiver in Italy, France, and Spain Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Reproducing the future: a realistic necessity for an ageing society Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Age and Gender Preferences in Job Opportunities: a Survey in Italian SMEs Università Bocconi, Italy Economic crisis and the wellbeing of the elderly in Italy: the long-term impact of the Great Recession 1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: FBK-IRVAPP, Italy; 3: Goethe-Universität, Germany Retirement migration, citizenship, and regulatory inconsistency: the Italian case between agency mobile and institutional constraints University of Bologna General Practitioners and Avoidable Hospitalizations in Italy's Aging Population. Bocconi University, Italy |
| D3S2-R5: Housing, Energy and Sustainability among older people Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Piermarco Aroldi Energy communities and population age in Italian municipalities Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy Energy poverty and active ageing in Italy Parthenope University of Naples, Italy Silver Awareness Sustainability Checklist: A policy evaluation tool for age-inclusive local development Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Measuring housing and health vulnerability among older people in Italy: a multidimensional perspective Marche Polytechnic University, Italy |
D3S2-R6: Innovative Technologies for Ageing, Learning and Assistive Human-Robot Interaction Location: Auditorium Chair: Luca Francioso Enhancing Bci Learning Through Collaborative Social Gaming: A Longitudinal Study Of Motor Imagery Training 1: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 2: Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 3: Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Old but Gold: Population Ageing and Innovation Incentives 1: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC), Complexity Lab in Economics (UCSC); 2: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei User-Aware Multi-Turn Dialogue System for Socially Assistive Robots Using LLMs University of Florence, Italy Learning to walk: An imitative approach to adaptive gait generation in lower limb exoskeletons for elderly assistance 1: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; 2: Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Italy |
D3S2-R7: Well-being and Health Location: Aula magna centro congressi Unina Chair: Stefano Campostrini Achieving well-being: a global framework for integrating well-being into public health utilizing a health promotion approach World Health Organization, Italy Presentation for special session Measuring Equitable and Sustainable well-being in Italy, the BES framework Istat Presentation for special session Measuring well-being in a health promotion perspective Ca' Foscari University of Venice Presentation for special session Well-being, health and ageing styles: which public health policies? UNIVERSITA' MAGNA GRAECIA, Italy |
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| 12:15pm - 1:15pm |
D3-CP: Closing Day Plenary Location: Auditorium Chair: Daniele Vignoli Chair: Guido Iaccarino Chair: Carlos Chiatti Decoding the Exposome: Molecular Biomarkers at the Intersection of Environment and Aging (remote) Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States of America Presentation for special session Keynote Speaker Medical University of Graz, Austria |
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| 1:15pm - 1:30pm |
D3-FS: Farewell Session Location: Auditorium Farewell remarks 1: University of Florence, Italy; 2: Erasmus Rotterdam University |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
D3-L: Lunch Location: Lunch Area |
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