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of the system, safety and other empirical values was collected over

a period of five treatment interventions.

Results:

Future target groups like geriatric patients and

physiotherapists were strongly involved in the development phase.

Acceptance of patients and therapists was high despite initial

concerns. MOPASS could easily be implemented in the current

treatment schedule and patients had a high sense of security.

Conclusions:

The results of this study helped in the development of

robotic gait assistance systems and to increase the mobility of the

system and flexibility of therapist. This process can help to transfer

the concept of robotic gait rehabilitation systems from specialized

medical institutions to local hospitals and even to the domestic

environment of geriatric patients.

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Promoting lifelong education through innovative teaching

methods

S.S. Hernes

Sorlandet Hospital, Arendal, Norway

Objectives:

Lifelong knowledge and continuous learning are the

main goal of medical education. During the last decades medical

education has evolved from the traditional lecture-discussion

model to implementing active learning techniques such as problem

based learning and variations thereof.

Methods:

Literature search in PubMed combining two or more

of the keywords “Medical Education”, “Active Learning”, and

“Cognitive Theory”. In addition PubMed and Google searches on

“Social Media” and “Medical Education” have been performed. The

analysis is partly based on the personal experiences gained as

a student of the European Academy for the Medicine of Ageing

(EAMA) where novel teaching strategies are frequently introduced.

Results:

Classroom modification methods are promising techniques

for making the learner an active contributor to the learning process.

Based on the ICAP hypothesis; increasing the student’s involvement

with the curriculum will guide the learning process through

the stages “Passive” – “Active” – “Constructive” – “Interactive”,

and finally lead to increased student knowledge. This insight

supports the need for implementing teaching methods facilitating

interactive lifelong learning, as opposed to a pure traditional

curriculum based focus in medical education. Some methods

such as “flash-lightning” and “museum/gallery walk” are easily

implemented into an established curriculum, whereas others such

as “flipped classroom” require more fundamental changes. Social

media in medical education is currently in its early stages, future

possibilities and the EAMA class of 2014–2016 video-projects, will

be presented.

Conclusions:

There are indications that innovative teaching

techniques increase the ability to stay focused during long lectures,

and might improve student’s long term recall. More evidence is

needed.

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Cognitive characteristics in persons with young onset

Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia in

Norwegian memory clinics study population

L. Hvidsten

, K. Engedal

, G. Selbæk

, T.B. Wyller

, H. Kersten

Aldring og Helse, Tønsberg, Norway;

Nasjonalt Kompetansesenter

for Aldring og Helse, Oslo, Norway;

Innlandet Hospital Trust,

Ottestad, Norway;

University of Oslo/Ullevaal University Hospital,

Oslo, Norway;

Ullev˚al University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Objectives:

The objective is to characterize and compare the

cognitive function in persons with young onset Alzheimer’s disease

(AD) and Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), defined by symptom

debut before the age of 65 years.

Methods:

The study population is part of a two-year observational

multicentre study of community-dwelling persons consisting of 50

persons with AD and 24 with FTD and their families, recruited from

seven memory clinics from February 2014 to July 2015.

Comprehensive cognitive assessments were made at baseline

according to the standardized diagnostic manual of the Norwegian

Dementia Registry, including the Mini Mental Status Examination-

Norwegian Revised (MMSE-NR), Clock Drawing Test (CDT), The

Consortium To Establish A Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD)

visuospatial figures and Word List Recall Test (CERAD-WLRT), and

the Trail Making Test-A and B (TMT-A/B).

Results:

At inclusion the two groups did not differ with regard to

age, gender, education or occupational status. Further, no significant

differences in medical or mental co-morbidity, or use of drugs were

present. Median age was 64 years for the AD-group, and 63 years

for FTD. Median Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR)-global score was

0.5 for both groups.

Preliminary findings showed that persons with FTD performed

significantly better on the MMSE-NR, CDT, CERAD-WLRT, and TMT-B

compared to persons with AD.

Conclusion:

The FTD-group had significantly better results than the

AD-group on most cognitive tests, including the CDT and the TMT-B,

suggesting executive dysfunction as a more prominent cognitive

disability in early stages of AD compared to FTD.

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Ageing as a major public health problem and the governmental

policies on ageing research

D. Khaltourina

, E. Milova

Board Chair of the Council for Public Health and the Problems of

Demography, Moscow, Russia;

Coodinator for Life Extension and

Ageing Prevention, Council for Public Health and the Problems of

Demography, Moscow, Russia

Objective:

To find out how beneficial are the national and

multinational policies for the research on ageing, geronological

and geriatric issues.

Method:

Methods used include the analysis of national and

multinational policy documents on ageing research funding and

on the prospective geroprotective therapies, their registration and

use in clinical practice, as well as biomedical stakeholder survey.

Results:

Results obtained include the findings that many countries

prioritize healthy ageing, but few countries have specifically

designated funding for ageing research and geriatrics.

According to the EU Regulation No 1291/2013 of 11 December

2013 on establishing Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme

for Research and Innovation (2014–2020) and repealing Decision

No 1982/2006/EC/, the issues of healthy ageing and ageing disease

prevention should be a priority.

However, it seems that the issue of biogerontological research is in

fact pushed into the background. There are only a few grant calls

relevant for the prevention and treatment of ageing and ageing-

related diseases. It is not quite clear from the publicly available

papers how the decisions on ageing related disease are being

made.

The reason for insufficient focus on innovative biomedical

translational research on ageing could be the priorities of

the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy

Ageing, which do not stress enough complex biomedical science

development to protect the health of the elderly.

The United States provide an example of targeted governmental

policy to support ageing research in the form of National Institute

of Aging grant programs. Other places with programs like that (on

much smaller scale) are Kazakhstan and Taiwan.

We found additionally, that the legal framework is not completely

prohibitive to geroprotective therapy registration. For example,

FDA’s definition of disease seems to embrace degenerative

processes. However, there still some challenges.