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San Luis 2538 – C1056AAD – Buenos Aires

San Luis 2538 - C1056AAD, Buenos Aires, Argentina



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Clinical Centre of Endocrinology and Gerontology
Medical University of Sofia
Boulevard Vitosha 36
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria

Prof. Norah Keating is Chair of the North American Regional Committee of IAGG. She is Past President of the Canadian Association on Gerontology and served on its board of directors during the planning for the IAGG World Congress in Vancouver in 2001. She is involved in international in research and policy development and has had recent international research fellowships and consultations with the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development (Bangor, UK), The Centre for Social Gerontology (Keele, UK), University of Victoria (NZ), Taiwan Family Caregivers Association, and University of Heidelberg (Germany). Prof. Keating has been recognized for her contributions to health research by the award of Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Prof. Keating is a founding member and co-director of Research on Aging, Policies and Practice, University of Alberta which has an international group of co-investigators, collaborators, and policy and practice partners. RAPP is recognized for its research on unpaid work (caregiving, volunteer, and community engagement), ageing well, and community support to older adults; and for its impact on public policy related to population aging.
Prof. Keating often is invited to national and international conferences and policy meetings to discuss caregiving in Canada and community issues related to population aging. Author of more than 150 publications, Prof. Keating is the lead author on the book, ‘Eldercare in Canada’ which provided the first national profile of family and friend caregiving in Canada. She is known for her work on deconstructing assumptions about family/friend caregiving and often consults with government on caregiving policy. Her program of research also focuses on the contributions made by older adults in the voluntary, community and family/friend sectors. She is the editor of ‘Critical perspectives on rural ageing’ which addresses processes of aging in rural areas and considers older adults in the contexts of their social networks, the formal services sector, and their communities.
Prof. Keating is actively involved in mentorship of young scholars. She has supervised more than 40 postgraduate students, and has worked with postdoctoral fellows in her lab and elsewhere in her research networks. She has helped develop national and international student gerontology associations. Recently she received the Evelyn Shapiro Mentorship award from the Canadian Association on Gerontology in recognition of this work.

Professor and Co-director of the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta, Canada
University of Alberta Department of Human Ecology Research on Aging, Policies and Practice 322 Human Ecology Building Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2N1







Research Institute of Therapy,
4 Ljiubliana St.
Tbilisi, GEORGIA



















Department of Social Welfare, College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University San 56-1, Shinrim-dong, Kwanak-ku, Seoul 151-742, Korea

Dr. Mohd Ghazali Abdul Ghaib obtained his PHD in Industrial Relation System from New Castle University, USA and has vast experience in the field of Industrial Relation System, particularly in the Malaysian context.
• He has worked with the Government of Malaysia for 30 years, in various Departments of the Ministry of Human Resource. He was the Deputy Director General of the Department of Industrial Relations and later promoted to Director General in the Department of Employees Union Affairs under the Ministry of Human Resource Malaysia.
• In 2008, he was nominated as the Chairman of the Public Transport Investigation Commission and he is currently lecturing at the Malacca Technical University.
• Besides being the President of the Gerontological Association of Malaysia (GeM) he is also the Deputy President of the Malaysia Human Resources Consultants Association and is also a member of the Asian Institute Management Science.
• He has his own consultancy firm QHR Consultancy of which he is the Chairman.
• During his appointment with the Government, he represented Malaysia in many conferences and training courses in the field of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations held in countries like Switzerland, Japan and Thailand.
• In 2008, he was nominated as a member of the National Advisory Council on Ageing , one of the highest Committee on Ageing Issues of Malaysia chaired by the Honourable Minister of Women, Family and Community Development.
• In 2008 he was nominated as one of the members of the Technical Committee on Population Strategic Plan Study by the National Population and Family Development Board Malaysia. The Committee is at national level entrusted to evaluate and monitor the long term population growth objective which is to raise the quality of human life in Malaysia through appropriate population and development policies.
• At intervals he is invited to give talks at seminars and conferences on topics related to effective communications, bridging the intergenerational gap, moral values, motivational talks and grand parenting.

30 Jalan 8/19,
43650 Bandar Baru Bangi
Selangor - MALAYSIA



Faculteit Scw/vakgroep SSG, VRJE Universiteit De Veste 16-69 8231 JG Lelystad The Netherlands
Dr. Valerie WRIGHT-ST CLAIR is a registered occupational therapist and senior lecturer at the Department of Occupational Science & Therapy, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. WRIGHT-ST CLAIR's academic interests span the fields of gerontology, occupational science, cross cultural research and interpretive phenomenology. Her research focuses on being in the everyday in advanced age, elders' everyday occupations, the relationship between elder's participation & longevity, and exploring the meaning of what people do.
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Department of Occupational Science and Therapy,
AUT University,
North Shore Campus,
90 Akoranga Drive,
Northcote 0627,NEW ZEALAND

















c/o South African Geriatrics Society
P.O. Box 2072
Haughton 2072
SOUTH AFRICA





c/o National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life (NISAL)
Linkoping Universitet
SE 60174 Norrkoping
SWEDEN




Director, Department of Family Medicine, Veterans General Hospital 201 Shih-Pai Road, Section 2, Taipei, 11217 Taiwan

Director, Division of Gerontology Research, National Health Research Institute Department of Family Medicine National Taiwan University Hospital 20F-8,No.50,Sec.1.Chung Shiao W. Rd.,Taipei 100,Taiwan



Prof. Yesim Gökce Kutsal is the director of Research and Application Center of Geriatric Sciences GEBAM and professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University Ankara-Turkey. She has got the European Board Certificate in 2000. Dr.Gökçe Kutsal is the representative of her country in International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) and observer member of European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS).
Dr.Gökçe Kutsal is the Founder and President of Turkish Geriatrics Society since 2003, Founder and Executive Board member of the Turkish Osteoporosis Society since 1998, Founder Vice President of the Society of Life With Osteoporosis since 2002, Scientific Board member of the “Turkish Medical Index” in the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK ULAKBİM) since 1994.
She has worked as a member of the “Executive Board” of Turkish Medical Association between the years 1998-2000, member of the “Honorary Committee” of Ankara Chamber of Medical Doctors in 1998-2002, member of the “Consultation Group for Ethical Problems” in the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 1999-2000, member of “Clinical Consultancy Board for Analgesic Drugs” in Ministry of Health in 1992-1993.
She is the Chief Editor of “Turkish Journal of Geriatrics” (in SCI Exp) since 1998, Editorial Board member of “Turkish Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine” since 1993 and she works as a Scientific Reviewer in International Journal of Age and Aging and Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences and also six national journals. She is a member of various international and national scientific societies and associations in her field and has been an invited speaker on numerous international courses and congresses.
Specific areas of interest and expertise: Aging of the musculoskeletal system, Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, Geriatric rehabilitation, Rationale drug use in elderly, Quality of life in elderly, Low back pain, Evidence based medicine, Medical ethics, Good clinical practice.
Publications: Dr.Gökçe Kutsal has edited one international, and 22 national books, has written 4 chapters in international and 26 chapters in national books, has a total of 45 articles published in international journals and 217 articles published in national journals.
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