Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Update Organisation Data

People

Professor	Prof.dr. G.J. Blauw
Professor	Prof.dr. R.G.J. Westendorp
Associate professor	Dr. A.J.M. de Craen
Associate professor	Dr.ir. D. van Heemst
Associate professor	Dr. J.J. Meij
Associate professor	Dr. A.M. Oleksik

Current research

(the most recent research is at the top)
Secretariat	The effect of thyroid hormone substitution for subclinical hypothyroidism in the oldest old; the IEMO 80-plus thyroid trial
Secretariat	The Rehabilitation Care Programme: integrated function centred care and defrayment for frail older people
Secretariat	MYOAGE - Understanding and Combating age related muscle weakness
Secretariat	Study to Establish Biomarkers of Human Ageing
Secretariat	Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing : Living healthier for longer

All current research..

Completed research

(the most recent research is at the top)
Collaboration	Genes, inflammation, and age-related diseases
Secretariat	Biomarkers of the rate of ageing
Secretariat	The regulation of human life histories under adverse conditions: studying the role of innate immunity into the trade-off between reproductive success and early survival in the Upper East Region of Ghana. (second cohort)
Secretariat	Pathophysiology, epidemiology and therapy of ageing

Classification

A70000	Public health and health care
D23363	Geriatrics