Areas of activity
The main goals of the areas of activity are to strengthen the impact of the scientific, medical and social spheres in the work related to the prevention of multifactorial diseases that lead to premature aging, through not only knowledge exchange but also public participation.
As life expectancy increases worldwide, age-related diseases are becoming a serious problem for societies around the world. It remains important to understand the biological mechanisms underlying the aging process, which is a tool for developing effective interventions aimed at preventing and treating age-related conditions.
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Multifactorial prevention of diseases in different age periods
The achievements of civilization have given rise to a multifactorial nature of the problems of modern man, including:
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Changed lifestyle
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Neuropsychiatric overload
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Reduced energy expenditure, monotonous diet with loss of its diversity, "stereotypical" nutrition
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Decreased immunity
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Lack of effect from drugs that were previously used (for example, antibiotics)
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Nervous and mental overloads
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Increase in the number of:
- drugs used and their side effects;
- metabolic diseases (obesity, diabetes) and others
- arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease and other diseases of the heart and blood vessels, malignant tumors);
- diseases caused by environmental degradation
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And much more.....
Our problematic discussions are devoted to these issues, given that it is no secret that the number of diseases increases with age, and today's modern man has to face the "cumulative" effect of the accumulation of diseases that resulted from the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Multifactoriality is due to all the damage caused by endogenous changes that occur in each of the age periods (years of aging); damage caused by external factors and damage caused by the actual diseases of the elderly.
In addition, the world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic,
which focuses on the consequences and complications of a person suffering from more than 2-3 metabolic-associated diseases and elderly patients.
In this context, we would like to discuss the issue of PREVENTION of possible changes - at the physical and mental level - that result from the introduction of adaptive quarantine in different age groups.
For the elderly, according to the concepts of frailty (senile asthenia) and resilience (age-related vitality), this is especially relevant, because the ability to realize resilience has four components: molecular, physical, psychological and cognitive. Everything is not lost at the same time, something must remain. Therefore, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to strive not only to compensate for the deficit, but also to learn how to use the remaining resilience.
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Biogerontology, bioengineering, innovative technologies
Biogerontology is a promising area of medicine that includes the study of biomarkers and epigenetics as critical components of the aging process. Given the reversibility of epigenetic changes, epigenetic reprogramming is considered as a potential approach to treating age-related changes.
We consider how different types of epigenetic mechanisms are involved in the aging process. In addition, it is interesting to evaluate various interventions that modulate epigenetics and thereby promote health and longevity.
Gerotechnology is the development of innovative technologies and environments for independent living and social participation of older people for health, comfort and safety.
All of this should bring us closer to understanding Precision medicine, a field that focuses on determining which approaches will be effective for each patient based on genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors.
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Multidisciplinary direction
Unites not only doctors, but also specialists in the social, psychoanalytic, and behavioral fields who work on the problems of interpersonal relationships in different age groups. Topics such as lifelong personal development, participation in society, social integration and loneliness, income and well-being, functional health and care, etc. All these are examples of the kind of issues that are the focus of discussions among the participants of the events.
In other words, this area will bring together sociologists, psychologists, public health scientists, social policy makers, humanities scholars, social workers, to name just a few. We plan to develop this area in close cooperation with international experts.
