Location: Lecture hall 3
Address: Biomedicum 1, Haartmaninkatu 8, P-floor, Meilahti campus, Helsinki, Finland
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Session I: Physical activity and aging
| 8:30 | Elina Sillanpää (University of Jyväskylä & FIMM) Introduction and welcome |
| 8:45 | Taina Rantanen (University of Jyväskylä) What is old age? |
| 9:30 | Sini Siltanen (University of Jyväskylä) How are psychological resources related to activity in old age? |
| 9:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:15 | Juha Hulmi (University of Jyväskylä) Basic effects and principles of resistance training in older people |
| 10:45 | Jaakko Hentilä (University of Jyväskylä) Effects of resistance training on muscle autophagy in older people |
| 11:00 | Lunch break |
Session II: Cognitive aging
| 12:15 | Eero Vuoksimaa (FIMM, University of Helsinki) Introduction |
| 12:30 | Juha Rinne (University of Turku) Early detection of Alzheimer's disease |
| 13:15 | Hanna Jokinen-Salmela (University of Helsinki) Cognitive impact of vascular burden in the aging brain |
| 13:45 | Eero Vuoksimaa (FIMM, University of Helsinki) Cognitive and neuroinflammation imaging markers in the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia |
| 14:00 | Laura Ekblad (Amsterdam Alzheimer Center) Insulin resistance and cognition |
| 14:15 | Jenni Lehtisalo (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, THL & University of Eastern Finland) Adherence to multidomain lifestyle intervention and cognition |
| 14:30 | Coffee break |
Session III: Aging society
| 15:00 | Sari Stenholm (University of Turku) Work and retirement as determinants of healthy ageing |
| 15:30 | Marja Jylhä (University of Tampere, Gerontology Research Center (GEREC)) Ageing changes everything - but do we want it? |
| 16:00 | Closing of the symposium |