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45° CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY OF PRM: INTERNATIONAL SESSION WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESPRM

During the 45° National Congress of the Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (SIMFER) held in Genova, on October 23th to 25 , an International Session has been organized with the title “Disability, aging and rehabilitation, international perspectives” .

Lectures have been presented by representatives of ESPRM: Xanthi Michail, President of the European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chair of the ESPRM Special Interest Scientific Committee on PRM and Aging Persons, presented on “Promoting healthy aging in people with disability” and Carlotte Kiekens, General Secretary of ESPRM, gave a talk on “Ageing with a spinal cord injury”. Chairpersons of the session were Xanthi Michail, Calogero Foti, ESPRM Italian Delegate, and Francesca Gimigliano, General Secretary of ISPRM.

The other invited speakers were Stefania Maggi, President of the European Union of Geriatric Medicine Society, presenting on “Epidemiology of disability in the elderly population: current trends” and Ziad Hawamadek, member of the Jordanian Society of PRM, and ESPRM Delegate, on “Rehabilitation of elderly people in a middle-east country “.

At the end of the Session, Carlotte Kiekens presented the ESPRM 2018 Congress of Vilnius, inviting the Italian Colleagues to participate.