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The Fundació Institut Català de l'Envelliment participates in the following networks and workgroups:

• TASK FORCE ON NUTRITION IN THE ELDERLY OF THE IAGG EUROPEAN REGION
  Date: 2008-
  Staff: Marco Inzitari, Antoni Salvà
  Funding: IAGG-ER
  Summary: Our Institute is coordinating this task force on nutrition in the elderly on behalf on the IAGG-ER. The aim is to assess the state of the art, to detect possible gaps in knowledge and to draw future research directions on four related themes: epidemiology of nutrition in the elderly, the relationship between nutrition and the frailty (or pre-disability) status, the screening and assessment of poor nutrition, and the interventions to prevent and treat poor nutrition in older adults, either community-dwellers or more care dependant.
  
  
• InterRAI España
  Summary: interRAI is a collaborative network of researchers in over 20 countries committed to improving health care for persons who are elderly, frail, or disabled. Our goal is to promote evidence-based clinical practice and policy decisions through the collection and interpretation of high quality data about the characteristics and outcomes of persons served across a variety of health and social services settings.
  
  More information at www.interrai-es.org

• REIACTIS
  Summary: REIACTIS – the International Network on Age, Citizenship and Socio-economic Integration – is an academic forum that acts both as a ‘network of networks’ and a specialized think tank on ageing- and citizenship-related issues with the goal of bringing together, on an international scale, the intellectual and material resources required to carry out research in this domain. Its research framework is not confined to data collection but takes a three-dimensional approach.
  Website: www.reiactis.org
  
  
• XARXAlzheimer
  Date: 2005-
  Funding: Own
  Partners:

  Coordination:

  • Institut de l'Envelliment. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
    
    
    Members:
    
  • Benito Menni CASM. St. Boi (Barcelona)
  • Psicoclínica de la Mercè. Barcelona
  • Centre Sociosanitari El Carme. Badalona Serveis Assistencials (BSA)
  • Consorci Sanitari del Maresme i Hospital Sant Jaume de Mataró
  • Hospital Sociosanitari l'Hospitalet. Consorci Sanitari Integral
  • Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades. Barcelona
  • Unidad de Alzheimer y otros trastornos cognitivos. Hospital Clínic i Provincial. Barcelona
  • Hospital de Bellvitge. Barcelona
  • Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona
  • Hospital General de Granollers
  • Hospital Germans Tries i Pujol. Badalona
  • Hospital Mútua de Terrassa
  • Gestió de Serveis Sanitaris. Hospital Santa Maria de Lleida
  • Unitat de Valoració de la Memòria i les Demències. Institut d'assistència Sanitària. Hospital Santa Caterina. Girona
  • Hospital Psiquiàtric Universitari Instiut Pere Mata. Reus.
  • Fundació Viure i Conviure de l'Obra Social de Caixa Catalunya
    • Hospital de dia Sant Jordi. Granollers
    • Hospital de dia Sant Jordi. Terrassa
    • Hospital de dia Sant Jordi. Igualada
    • Centre Socio-sanitari. Cornellà.
  • Hospital Sagrat Cor. Germanes Hospitalàries. Martorell.
  
  Summary: The institute coordinates this network which brings together professionals from several centers and has the aim of being a platform for multicentric research and to improve the knowledge about Alzheimer disease and other dementia.
  Contact: In order to get more information you can get in touch using the contact addresses or the e-mail address: alzheimer.envelliment@uab.es
  
  
• GERONTONET
  Summary: European network comprising clinical, assistential and research centers related to aging and the elderly.
  
  
• PROFANE
  Summary: European Network dedicated to the study of the prevention of falls in the elderly
  Web: www.profane.eu.org
  
  
• MOBEX
  Summary: European group of experts in mobility, falls and exercise of the elderly
  
  

  Mobex meeting in January 2004

  
  
  
• WHOQOL
  Summary: The WHOQOL group is an international collaboration of medical, health and social scientists, first convened in 1991. Originally working in 15 countries simultaneously, there are now over 50 different language versions worldwide.
  
  
• ALZHEIMER DISEASE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM
  Summary: The Institut participates in this network of experts in AD, where there is presence of several european universities
  Website: http://eadc.alzheimer-europe.org/
  
  
• NAFTER
  Date: 2003-
  Funding: IAG, Vegenat
  Summary: Grupo de trabajo de la Asociación Internacional de Gerontología, región europea y la IANA sobre nutrición y envejecimiento.
  Publications:
  • Salvà A, Andrieu S, Domingo A, Vellas B."Atención nutricional en las personas mayores en los centros de cuidados de larga duración", in Revista española de geriatría y gerontología 2005, 40; ext. 2: 30-40
  • Salva A, Corman B, Andrieu S, Salas J, Vellas B; International Association Of Gerontology/International Academy Of Nutrition And Aging Task Force. "Minimum data set for nutritional intervention studies in elderly people", in The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2004 Jul;59(7):724-9
  • Salva A, Corman B, Andrieu S, Salas J, Vellas B. "Minimum data set for nutritional intervention studies in the elderly IAG/ IANA task force consensus", en The Journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2004;8(4):202-6
    

    Nafter group meeting