Rehabilitation and Healthy Ageing
Department Health Sciences and Medicine
LECTURE SERIES FALL 2019
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AND NOVEMBER 13, 2019 UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE, FROHBURGSTRASSE 3, 6002 LUCERNELECTURE HALL 5 AT 6.15 PM
IntroductionAs from August 1, the University of Lucerne launches the Department of Health Sciences and Medicine. The new organizational unit is created by transforming the current Depart-ment of Health Sciences and Health Policy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sci-ences into the new Department, which is under direct subordination of the rector. The new Department of Health Sciences and Medicine is organized into three closely collaborating divisions: Health Sciences and Health Policy, Medicine and Rehabilitation.
The Department offers a Master in Health Sciences (MSc Health Sciences, www.master-healthsciences.ch), a Joint Master Medicine (www.unilu.ch/medizin) in cooperation with the University of Zurich, a doctoral program as well as a young investigator program for post-docs. Our students also attend the lecture series, as it is an important part of their curriculum to broaden their interdisciplinary understanding of health.
We are proud to welcome Prof. Boninger from the University of Pittsburgh, USA and Prof. Albanese from the University of Lugano and we are looking forward to these highly interest-ing lectures as these talks contribute to our agenda of rehabilitation and healthy ageing.
Please join us, as the lecture series are open to the public.
Prof. Gerold StuckiChair Department Health Sciences and MedicineDirector Center for Rehabilitation in Global Health Systems
www.unilu.ch
ProgramSept. 25, 2019 Rehabilitation 2037
Michael L. Boninger, MD Professor and Vice Chair for Research University of Pittsburgh
The year is 2037. A mountain biker swerves on a trail, loses his balance, and falls down a rocky slope. His rehabilitation starts in the helicopter ride on the way to the hospital. This talk will follow his course and discuss research being done at the University of Pittsburgh today that will shape rehabilitation practice in 2037. While the talk will focus on neuroprosthetics, other topics including genetics, robotics and regenerative rehabilitation will also be discussed.
Nov. 13, 2019 Is integrated care for older people attainable in Switzerland?
Prof. Emiliano Albanese Full Professor, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana
The ICOPE approach was proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 to respond to the complex needs of older adults and to the greying of societies worldwide. The ICOPE ap-proach holds the promise to reorient health systems and services towards integrated care provided at the community level. ICOPE maintains that the focus should shift from diseases to the optimal attainment and maintenance of functional ability across the entire life course. A service delivery model is necessary to integrate health and social care. However, several ac-tions are required to align services, and to locally adapt and implement ICOPE. In practice, a multi-staged set of activities is needed to consult with different stakeholders, including older adults and service users, health and social care providers, and policy makers, in order to col-lectively identify and critically discuss an exhaustive set of effective elements required to support the implementation of the ICOPE approach at the individual (micro), health and social services (meso), and health system (macro) levels. The aim of the talk is to nurture a fruitful discussion on whether and how the ICOPE approach can be efficiently and effectively used to reorient health system and services in Switzerland towards integrated, person-centered care at the community level that responds to the complex health and social needs of older adults with impaired functional ability, due to decline of mental and physical capacities and to multi-ple chronic conditions.
InformationUniversity of LucerneDepartement Health Sciences & MedicineColette LenherrFrohburgstrasse 3P.O. Box 44666002 LucerneSwitzerlandT +41 41 229 56 31 [email protected]
VenueUniversity of LucerneFrohburgstrasse 36002 LucerneSwitzerland
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