Aging and Sleep 2012
2012-06-28 - 2012-06-29
Institut Pasteur - 28 Rue Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France
Meeting Description
Aging and Sleep is the premier educational event in geriatric sleep medicine, providing the latest information on clinical care and research.
Every two years, this international meting brings together geriatricians, gerontologists, sleep medicine specialists, respiratory medicine physicians, neurologists, primary care physicians, internal medicine specialists, trainees and health care providers as well as researchers with an interest in the elderly.
Aging and Sleep 2012 will focus on diagnostic and therapeutic processes that have, or will have, real clinical utility in the elderly. The expert faculty will present how best to implement the main diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies in everyday clinical practice.
Scientific Support
The organizers would like to thank following universities and societies who with sage advices, active involvement of their members and ongoing encouragement improve permanently scientific quality of this innovative, international and multidisciplinary meeting.
University of Paris 7
University of Lyon 1
IASRG: International Association of Sleep Research in Gerontology
SFRMS : Société Française de Recherche et de Médecine du Sommeil
SFGG: Société Française de Gériatrie et de Gérontologie
BGS : British Geriatrics Society
Recommended Audience
This meeting is recommended for geriatricians, gerontologists, sleep medicine specialists, respiratory medicine physicians, neurologists, primary care physicians, internal medicine specialists, trainees and allied health care providers as well as researchers with an interest in the elderly.
Overall Educational Objectives
Attendance at Aging and Sleep 2012 should give participants a broad understanding of the current state-of-the-art of geriatric sleep medicine, including current clinical practices used when investigating and treating sleep disorders in older adults; areas of controversy in clinical practice; recent basic science research; and ethical, social and economic issues relevant to geriatric sleep medicine.