Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Sala Santa Lucia |
| Date: Wednesday, 29/Oct/2025 | |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
D1S1-R5: Socioeconomic disparities and health (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Elisabetta Barbi Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility for people with disabilities: Emerging Trends, Policy Challenges and Evolution in motor insurance università di firenze, Italy Environmental pollutants and human DNA methylation variability: The Bussi sul Tirino SNI 1: Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.; 2: S.O.A. - Forum H2O, 65127 Pescara, Italy; 3: Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; 4: IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences, 40139 Bologna, Italy; 5: Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician", University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; 6: Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; 7: Department of Cultural Heritage (DBC), Ravenna Campus, University of Bologna, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; 8: Personal Genomics Ltd, 37136 Verona, Italy; 9: Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy; 10: Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics Unit, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, 20095 Cusano Milanino, Milan, Italy Income inequalities in mortality in the elderly population in Italy: differences between household and individual income. ISTAT, Italy Investigating Disparities in Cause-Specific Mortality based on Education in Italy 1: MEMOTEF Department, Sapienza University of Rome; 2: Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) Is culture good for health? A pseudo-panel approach 1: University of Florence (UNIFI); 2: Ca' Foscari University of Venice (UNIVE); 3: Istituto Regionale Programmazione Economica Toscana (IRPET) Mapping School Supply: How Local Educational Density Shapes Family and Youth Decisions University of Cagliari, Italy The Socioeconomic Status Gradient in Pain: A Cross-Country Analysis Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
D1S2-R5: The geographical dimension of caregiving and depopulation (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Cecilia Tomassini Integrating Spatial Analysis and Agent-Based Modeling to Assess Long-Term Care Sustainability in Italy Inner Areas University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Redefining Marginality: Disentangling service accessibility in Italy’s Inner Areas and the role of NRRP Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy Assessing Walkability in Italian Inner Areas: the Case of Premeno and Public Services Reallocation University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Distance and Needs: an index to capture the demographic curvature in care demand of dependent older people 1: University of Molise, Italy; 2: University of Naples Federico II, Italy Invisible hands, tangible ties: digital and relational practices of older informal caregivers in an Italian inner area University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Spatial differences in Italy’s population ageing: insights from a diachronic multi-scale approach (1991-2021) 1: ISTAT, Italy; 2: Università Federico II, Napoli Ageing at the extremes: internal mountainous areas in Northern Italy University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Systemic Depopulation's Geography: Italian and Austrian Municipalities' Diverging Paths (2001-2023) 1: University of Molise; 2: University of Naples Federico II |
| Date: Thursday, 30/Oct/2025 | |
| 11:00am - 12:15pm |
D2S1-R5: Biomarkers, Measurements, and Preventive Approaches for the Promotion of Healthy Aging (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Marco Narici Preliminary Insights from IN-TEMPO: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial on Personalized Multidomain Interventions for Healthy Aging 1: School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; 2: Milan Center for Neuroscience (Neuro-MI), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Blood biomarkers for monitoring the impact of multidomain interventions on age-related cognitive and functional decline 1: School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy; 2: Milan Center for Neuroscience (NeuroMI), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; 3: Department of Neurology, Fondazione IRCCS “San Gerardo dei Tintori”, Monza, Italy; 4: Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Decoding the Epigenetic Clock: Long-Term Predictive Power of DNA Methylation for Age Estimation 1: Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy; 2: Unit of Geriatric Medicine, Italian National Research Center on Aging (IRCCS INRCA), Cosenza, Italy; 3: University of Florence, Department of Statistic, Computer Science and Application, DiSIA, Viale Morgagni, 59, 50134, Florence (FI), Italy; 4: Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology KAUST, Thuwal 23952, Saudi Arabia; Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia; 5: Nephrology Unit, Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro 88100, Italy; 6: Unit of Geriatric Medicine, Italian National Research Center on Aging (IRCCS INRCA), Cosenza, Italy.; 7: Unit of Geriatric Medicine, Italian National Research Center on Aging (IRCCS INRCA), Cosenza, Italy; Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, School of Medicine and Digital Technologies, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy Aberrant TCR intracellular trafficking drives T cell dysfunction in immuno-senescence 1: Università di Torino, Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Healths Sciences, Italy; 2: Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dept. of Translational Medicine Dissecting evolutionary stress-adaptive adaptations in the hyper-longevous bats to devise novel anti-aging approaches. 1: Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy; 2: Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy; 3: Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Physics Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy; 4: Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy Obesity as driver of premature immune senescence 1: Istituto degli Endotipi in Oncologia, Metabolismo e Immunologia “G. Salvatore” (IEOMI)-CNR, Napoli, Italy; 2: Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Traslazionali (DISMET) Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy; 3: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in Scienze Immunologiche di base e cliniche (CISI), Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy; 4: Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Clinica, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy |
| 12:15pm - 1:30pm |
D2S2-R5: Aging and Musculoskeletal Health (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Carlos Chiatti Advanced microphysiological systems to evaluate pharmacological interventions in vitro CKD models 1: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 2: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 3: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.; 4: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.; 5: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.; 6: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 7: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 8: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 9: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 10: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy; 11: Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Via per Monteroni “Campus Ecotekne”, 73100 Lecce, Italy Exploring the Muscle–Brain Axis: Associations Between Neurodegeneration Biomarkers, Sarcopenia, and Function in Older Adults – Preliminary Results from the OPA Study 1: Geriatric Unit, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; 2: Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Center for Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND), Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 3: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua; 4: Clinica Medica 3, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua Effects of Paget’s disease of bone-associated ZNF687 and PFN1 mutations on hematopoietic cell heterogeneity and differentiation in the context of aging Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Italy Portable Surface Electromyography System for Sarcopenia Detection National Research Council of Italy, Instiute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy Evaluating Musculoskeletal Models and IMU Configurations for Reach-to-Grasp Biomechanics in Aging Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Parallel semantic reading of multiple words in aging 1: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 2: Università LUMSA |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
D2S3-R5: Supporting caregiving (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Marco Albertini The meaning of Ageing: Perspectives from Ageing Migrants Caregivers in Italy Università di Padova, Italy Supporting unpaid carers of older people in Italy: an analysis of the implementation of international policy recommendations at regional level INRCA IRCCS, Italy Home Caregivers and Intersectional Discrimination: The Dark Side of the Care Sector Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy Living (and Caring) Longer? Changes in Informal Care Provision Across Life in Italy 1: Department of Economics, University of Molise, Italy; 2: Department of Statistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; 3: ISTAT- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy Feasibility and acceptability of Wearable Sensors and Online Questionnaires in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia: Preliminary Evidence from the ICare.IT – AvereCura Study 1: Università di Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum, Italy; 2: National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (INRCA), Italy; 3: Center for Cognitive Disorders and Dementias, Ausl Romagna, Italy La figura del caregiver e la tutela della persona anziana. Questioni giuridiche trasversali Università degli studi di Padova, Italy Population ageing in Italy: household dynamics, care needs and labour participation University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy |
| 5:00pm - 6:15pm |
D2S4-R5: Aging, Wellbeing and Quality of Life (FLASH) Location: Sala Santa Lucia Chair: Fulvio Ricceri Silver surfers' social ties: understanding social network usage among Italian seniors University of Padova, Italy Older LGBTQ+ Adults and Affirmative Sports Environments: Indicators and Best Practices 1: Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: 2 Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 3: Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 4: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universitas Mercatorum Telematic University, Italy Matching care needs of LGBTQAI+ older adults and care workers’ education: a systematic review of reviews INRCA, Italy Improving Elderly Quality of Life through Innovative Social Day Care Centres. A Case Study in Rome within the Age-It Programme Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Sex-specific network dynamics of multimorbidity Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Forgotten in the hospital: The Effect of Municipality Social Spending on Elderly Hospital-related Outcomes. Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Italy |
| Date: Friday, 31/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:15pm |
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 |

