This Center aims to promote a comprehensive approach to longevity by advancing knowledge, implementing preventive measures, advocating healthy lifestyles, and exploring therapeutic interventions to ensure that people have the opportunity to age with optimized quality of life.
It will be a collaborative initiative presented by NOVA Medical School and NOVA School of Business & Economics (SBE), incorporating economic perspectives to evaluate and optimize the financial sustainability of healthcare interventions for the ageing population.
Main areas of focus:
- Research - on the mechanisms of ageing and therapeutic interventions;
- Education - opportunities in geriatrics;
- Direct community intervention - to test, implement, and validate new approaches to geriatric care.