European Symposium On Healthy Ageing - The role of Food, Nutrition and Lifestyle

November 29, 2007
08.30 – 09.00  Registration

09.00 – 09.10  Opening, welcoming address, introduction to program   I.Elmadfa
09.10 – 09.30  The Nutri-Senex project: goals, structure and achievements   M.Kück /I.Elmadfa

Getting older, facts about a biological process
09.30 – 10.10  Energy and nutrient requirements and the ageing process I.Elmadfa
10.10 – 10.40  Gender specific differences during ageing TBN
10.40 – 11.30    Coffee/ Tea break
11.30 – 12.00  Chemoreception and aging, what happens in the brain  C.Rouby
12.00 – 12.30  Ageing, frailty and disability  E.Topinkova
12.30 – 13.00  Intestinal micro flora function and elderly  E.Norin
13.00 – 14.00    Lunch break

Behavioural aspects food and nutrition in later life
14.00 – 14.30  Changes in food preferences during ageing  J.Köhler/ I.Leonhäuser
14.30 – 15.00  Quality of life, food choice and meal patterns  A.Hoffmann
15.00 – 15.30  A hard act to swallow TBN
15.30 – 16.00    Coffee/ Tea break
16.00 – 16.30  A sensory capability at ageing, impact on food preferences  G.Hall
16.30 – 17.00  Food and drug interaction, consequences for the nutrition/ health status  D. Genser (Austria)

November 30, 2007

Food, nutrition and health promotion
09.00 – 09.30  Diet promotes fitness and well being, also in the elderly?  TBN                          
09.30 – 10.00  Intervention to counteract micronutrient deficiency  S.Jackson
10.00 – 10.30  Thank be to body exercise, getting mobile and less dependent  TBN
10.30 – 11.00    Coffee/ Tea break
11.00 – 13.00  The quality of nutrition of elderly with different degrees of dependency
13.00 – 14.00    Lunch break
14.00 – 14.30  European Nutrition and Health Report (2004): Nutritional situation of the elderly in the European Union
          E.Fabian/ I.Elmadfa
14.30 – 15.00  Nutritional problems of the elderly in East and Central Europe  P.Stehle 

15.00 – 16.00  Outcome of the Nutri-Senex project
16.00          Closing remarks