ELDER, The challenge of getting older

Asturias has the necessary potential to lead an active aging action that allows creating the basis for developing action strategies, aimed at the particular characteristics of the population and preventive models that support preventive medicine and XXI Century Health.

ELDER, The challenge of aging: Proactive, responsible and preventive responses to the aging of the population in the Principality of Asturias, is based on a pilot project that will show the feasibility of the global characterization of aging in Asturias and the development of a predictor index of frailty with the active participation of the elderly themselves throughout the project. In addition, the internationalization of these processes will be analyzed, contrasting analogies or divergences with other European communities in terms of population characteristics and, therefore, in terms of predictive variables.

The set of information obtained, plus that gathered from previous studies, will allow creating a basis for the development of a LabAging aimed at studying the problems related to aging in Asturias and developing action strategies and preventive models.

At the technological level, ELDER will serve as a demonstrator of how the analysis of information through Artificial Intelligence techniques allows the development of diagnostic kits, predictor variables and ad hoc strategies as a basis for a later phase in which the global characterization will allow the efficient promotion of preventive medicine and the technological development of geriatrics and gerontology in Asturias in the 21st century.