The 23rd National Congress of Geriatrics is looming in Montpellier, from May 5 to 7. Public health, care, innovation, are at the heart of the event, co-organized by Professor Claude Jeandel.
Clinical and scientific advances in geriatrics, public health reforms, technological innovations, the 23rd edition of the Interdisciplinary Congress of Professionals in Geriatrics, CIPEG (1), doubled the National Congress of Coordinators of EHPAD, is organized in Montpellier, from May 5 to 7, in a difficult context: the Grand Age law, promised in 2018 by Emmanuel Macron Day, while the “demographic wall” is getting closer: in 2040, Occitanie will have twice as many people aged 85 or over than in 2015, announces the ARS.
In 2050, 4 million people dependent in France, by 2050, the INSEE announced that 4 million elderly people will be loss of autonomy.
“There will be no law, but the issues of the great age remain before us”admits Professor Claude Jeandel, former president of the National Professional Council and Gériatrie, author of a report on EHPAD, in 2021 and advisor to the Regional Health Agency on Policy linked to aging.
Co-organizer of the Congress, he built with his colleague Olivier Hanon, of the AP-HP, a program up to the challenges.
“We can hardly do without AI today”
“We will have a round table on artificial intelligence, we can hardly do without today”indicates Claude Jeandel. The zona vaccine protects against Alzheimer’s?
“Data processing, decision -making tools for healthcare professionals and school managers …” The field of AI is wide, not to mention interventions directly with people, a humanoid robot with AI already operates in Ehpad in Japan.
In terms of care, a return of experience is planned for the implementation of the first CRTs, the territorial resources centers, which are now “The interface between the EHPAD and the home, to delay entry into an establishment”specifies Claude Jeandel.
Zona and Alzheimer’s vaccine
“Thirty” de CRT are deployed in Occitanie, 300 in France, with an objective of 500 at the national level. A pilot project has notably emerged in connection with the CCAS of Montpellier: “We follow 30 dependent people who already benefit from home help, and we strengthen an active presence as soon as we receive a risk of rupture”explains Claude Jeandel.
A session “will be devoted to palliative care”, et “Many subjects revolve around prevention and vaccinations”.
The France Public Health Review, on April 28, reported a timid membership in the “flu” campaign of 2024-2025, “It is difficult to reach 50 % of vaccination coverage”.
“Flu, covid, vrs, zona … We must educate beneficiaries”insists Professor Jeandel. With good news this year, he insists: “According to a study by the University of Stanford published on April 2 in the journal Nature, vaccination against zona reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease in the seven years following injection.”
A result to be confirmed, which invites doubly to protect itself from viral infection.
