During her participation in the International Congress of the Sociedade Galega de Xerontoloxía e Xeriatría, held on 9 and 10 June 2023 in Vigo, she took part in a round table in which she presented the latest results of the project she is leading on the search for biomarkers of…
Representatives of the Gerontology and Geriatrics Research Group of the UDC have participated in several communications in the 63rd Congress of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology held between 7 and 9 June 2023 in Pamplona.
After a brilliant presentation of the work “Nutritional status and associated factors in a sample of frail elderly people”, doctoral student Laura Regueiro Folgueira has obtained the qualification of “Outstanding Cum Laude”. In the photo we can see from left to right: Prof. José C. Millán (thesis director), Prof. José…
Representatives of the Gerontology and Geriatrics Research Group of the UDC have participated in the XIX Congress of the Spanish Society of Psychogeriatrics held on 30 September and 1 October 2022.In addition to giving a symposium on Cognitive Frailty, they participated in an oral presentation by invitation and in several…
Professor Laura Lorenzo López from GIGG has brilliantly carried out and passed the competition to obtain the position of contracted doctoral professor.In the photo we can see her with the evaluation panel, composed from left to right by the teachers: Miguel Pérez Fontán, Sonia Souto, Adriana Álvarez, José Carlos Millán…
The Research Group in Gerontology and Geriatrics of the UDC continues its collaboration with the Gerontological Complex La Milagrosa in relation to the Active Ageing Programme, funded by the Deputación de A Coruña through its calls FOIE and FOAXE/2021 which aims to improve the quality of life of institutionalised elderly people…
The work, entitled “Analysis of genetic parameters as biomarkers of frailty in the elderly” was carried out by the research groups Behavioural and Molecular Diagnosis Applied to Health (DICOMOSA) and the Gerontology and Geriatrics Research Group (GIGG) of the UDC. Frailty syndrome implies a state of vulnerability and an increased risk…
The new doctor Julia Blanco Fandiño, speech therapist and master in clinical gerontology, has successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Study of the clinical and neuropsychological profile of the frailty syndrome”, which has also received the International Mention.The tribunal, chaired by Dr. Manuel Gandoy Crego (USC) was also formed by Prof. Óscar…
Organized by Radio Coruña (Cadena Ser), Prof. Millán Calenti, together with Fernando González Abeijón, General Director of Elderly and Persons with Disabilities, Paloma Moré, professor of sociology at UDC, María Xosé Rodríguez, Economist and Vice President of the Galician Observatory of Demographic Dynamization, moderated by journalist Isabel Bravo, participated in…
The UDC Gerontological and Geriatrics Research Group collaborates with La Milagrosa Gerontological Complex in the Active Aging program, which is financed by the Excma. Diputación of A Coruña through its calls FOIE and FOAXE/2020, and tries to improve the quality of life of the institutionalized older adults through different techniques of…