Laboratorio di Geriatria e Gerontologia

Il gruppo di ricerca conduce studi clinici ed epidemiologici sui meccanismi di invecchiamento con particolare attenzione ai seguenti temi:

sarcopenia
delirium
disturbi cognitivi e comportamentali
fragilità
cadute e fratture nell'anziano
disabilità e perdita dell'autonomia funzionale.

Responsabile: Prof. Stefano Volpato

Tipologia di ricerca: Epidemiologia e fisiopatologia dell'invecchiamento

Collaborazioni:

Tipologie di ricerca	Struttura	Responsabile/collaboratore
The research group of the ARC at the KI focuses on aging epidemiology. The main topics of collaboration with UNIFE are: accidental falls and sarcopenia in older adults behavioral impairment and cognitive decline.	Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.	Erika Jonsson Laukka (responsabile ARC) Davide Liborio Vetrano (collaboratore)
The NIA at the NIH studies the main physiopathologic pathways of aging. The main topics of the collaboration with UNIFE are about the understanding of mechanisms related to the development of sarcopenia in older age.	National Institute of Aging (NIH).	Luigi Ferrucci

Tipologie di ricerca

Struttura

Responsabile/collaboratore

The research group of the ARC at the KI focuses on aging epidemiology. The main topics of collaboration with UNIFE are:

accidental falls and sarcopenia in older adults
behavioral impairment and cognitive decline.

Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Erika Jonsson Laukka (responsabile ARC)
Davide Liborio Vetrano (collaboratore)

The NIA at the NIH studies the main physiopathologic pathways of aging. The main topics of the collaboration with UNIFE are about the understanding of mechanisms related to the development of sarcopenia in older age.

National Institute of Aging (NIH).

Luigi Ferrucci