PREMISE
The world population is aging, and hopes for a longer life are increasing, but a longer life does not necessarily mean a better life. This growing population must also be able to maintain an adequate quality level of existence. The aging of the world population thus becomes an unprecedented social, political, economic and technological challenge. What is most striking in the 21st century panorama is the fact of witnessing an unprecedented demographic redistribution, in which by 2050 the proportion of elderly people will tend to double, going from 11% to 22% of the total population. In the next 5 years, for the first time in human history, the number of individuals aged 65 and over will exceed that of children under the age of 5.
ABOUT
ÆTĀS Institute is composed of groups of scientists and researchers of excellence, in multi-disciplinary subjects, supported by important institutional partners and private companies, whose common goal is to create a new thought, and offer new tools and solutions to our society, where the aging of the population is seen as an opportunity rather than a burden. A society in which elderly people can preserve health and functional capacity, enjoying a state of well-being and living with dignity, without discrimination in contexts that help them feel safe, stay active, healthy, have control of their lives and be committed in society, with access to appropriate and high quality health and social services and aids. A society in possession of tools that help people to reach an advanced age in better health conditions and to continue to lead active lives with different roles.
bito sanitario e sociale. Una società in possesso di strumenti che aiutano le persone a raggiungere un’età avanzata in migliori condizioni di salute e a continuare a condurre esistenze attive con diversi ruoli.
PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES
In its highly innovative infrastructure equipped with interdisciplinary laboratories that include a series of departments and research centers, the institute through its activities aims to increase both the duration and the quality of life of the populations, through the study and implementation of new solutions. It will focus both on young populations and on the population over 60, on average healthy but at risk of cognitive impairment, fragility and depression providing concrete solutions for their rehabilitation and cognitive, motivational, and emotional reactivation.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Through its departments, the Institute will be engaged in multi-disciplinary research in the field, which aims to give the greatest impetus to development and research aimed at the prevention and health of people, developing an integrated approach in the disciplines of nutrition and of data science. Furthermore, the Institute will promote and carry out experimental and applied research activities in various fields, aimed at promoting an inter-disciplinary approach that integrates the study activity and the different skills of the laboratories. To this end, the Institute intends to concentrate critical masses of researchers in order to foster scientific collaboration, the circulation of ideas and the best exploitation of human and material resources.
DEPARTMENTS
Places of knowledge, research, innovation and comparison of the different professions present in the Institute, where choices and methodologies of all the scientific research activities carried out within the Institute are shared. The various departments are not separate bodies, but an organizational issue of our Scientific Committee, and are chaired by a coordinating professor appointed by the head of the Institute on the designation of the members of the departments. Visit this section to learn about our departments:
AREAS OF RESEARCH
The research areas of the Institute operate in continuous synergy and with a widespread and continuous transversality, ensuring the maximum scientific collaboration between the different research activities and among the projects the Institute deals with. The priorities and areas of intervention of the research activities carried out by the different departments are considered in an organic manner, guaranteeing a programmatic orientation aimed at outlining the objectives, directing the activities and distributing the funds correctly. Visit this section to see our research areas:
OPPORTUNITIES IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Aging research is often not seen as a separate field, but as the sum of the individual research activities dedicated to specific pathologies and alterations that occur in the elderly. In this way, we tend to underestimate the acquisition of an overview of the mechanisms and processes that lead from vulnerability to the often concomitant establishment of particular pathological conditions related to age. It is necessary to strengthen and finance research on aging as an independent and complex entity, recognizing the enormous return that investments in this sense could provide to the entire society, through the identification of factors, not only of health, but also of character welfare, social, economic and environmental, which promote active and healthy aging.
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science”.
OUR PARTNERS
The best way to succeed in any business is to have solid partners you can rely on. Our partners are those institutions and bodies that believe in our work and support us by financing and sponsoring our research and initiatives, giving us confidence, accompanying us on a scientific level for a synergistic work in support of scientific research and increasingly innovative and functional prevention.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Donating to scientific research for the benefit of all it is really worth a lot, because our future depends largely on scientific discoveries. The money we receive are destined exclusively for scientific research, through research grants, scholarships and prizes for young researchers. In addition, they are used for dissemination initiatives, transfer of scientific and technical know-how to the economic-productive system or purchase of instrumentation and diagnostic equipment. In this section you will find all the indications on how you can support us:
NEWS
In this section you can discover our updated selection of the most interesting news, discoveries, opinions, reports and scientific publications in the sector. Enjoy the reading!
POPULATION WITH MORE THAN 65 YEARS
OF OVER 65 YEARS PEOPLE, LIVE IN A SOCIAL ISOLATION CONDITION
OF EUROPEAN POPULATION OVER 65 YEARS, THAT HAVE A SOME FORM OF LIMITATION
OF OVER 65 PEOPLE ARE NOT ABLE TO PERFORM DAILY ACTIVITIES
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