Meeting Highlights

• Factors affecting mortality and morbidity in geriatric surgery
• Tips for the peri-operative assessment
• Use of advanced surgical techniques in older adults
• Fixation solutions in osteoporotic bone
• Perioperative blood management in older adults
• Acute and chronic pain control management
• Drugs and polypharmacy in older adults with fragility fracture
• Pro-active nursing to improve outcomes
• Effective rehabilitation for short- and long-term functional recovery
• Fracture liaison and orthogeriatric services as a standard of care
• Integrated models of care and transition of care
• Do we really know patients’ needs and determinants of quality of life?
• Practical advice on how to set up a secondary fracture prevention service and an orthogeriatric ward
• Tips and tricks on improving nutritional care
• Falls prevention in the hospital and in the community
• Practical osteoporosis treatment