Task Force on Geriatric Cardiology

ESC Council for Cardiology Practice

Mission

The mission of the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice is to 'improve the standard of care in the clinical cardiology practice of office-based general cardiologists'. Within the scope of this mission, the Council has created a Task Force in Geriatric Cardiology whose specific mission will be to:

to promote healthy ageing, particularly related to CVD prevention and appropriate management of risk factors in elderly
to focus on particular aspects of CVD in elderly
to implement the appropriate management of CVD in elderly
to implement the appropriate management of non-CV diseases associated with increased vascular risk in elderly
to focus on frailty in CVD
to focus on CVD end-of-life issues
to develop new strategies to support ageing and disease management in elderly e.g. (using e-Health)
to promote ESC Public health programmes and education - National education programmes
translational research on cell ageing, particularly related to vascular ageing and heart cell ageing

Members

Luigina Guasti (Task Force Chairperson), Italy
Marc Ferrini, France
Riccardo Asteggiano, Italy
Dimitrios Richter, Greece
Kyriakos Yiangou, Cyprus
Vilem Danzig, Czechia
Giovanni Gaudio, Italy
Stefano Fumagalli, Italy

Activities

The activities of the task force will include but not be limited to:

Webinars

Webinars on demand

Anticoagulation challenges in older subjects with multimorbidity

ESC Council on Cardiology Practice

Antithrombotic treatment in the elderly

ESC Council for Cardiology Practice and the Working Group on Thrombosis

Hypertension management in the elderly and frail patient

ESC Council on hypertension webinar in collaboration with the ESC Council on Cardiology Practice

Scientific sessions

The TaskForce has participated to various session during past ESC Congress:

ESC Congress 2024

Practical seminar for general clinicians

Presentation on "How to manage frailty in patients with cardiovascular disease?"

ESC Congress 2023

Meet the Experts: cardiovascular care in complex elderly patients

ESC Congress 2022

Frailty in cardiology: assessment and consequences

Presentations on:
"From TAVI over mitral and tricuspidal transcatherter intervention to cardiac and non-cardiac surgery: is it useful to assess frailty?"
"How can digital health technology help in the management of frailty?"
"Frailty in cardiology: assessment and consequences"

Guidelines in practice: management of dyslipidemias in the elderly

Case presentation on "Management of dyslipidaemias in the elderly"

Chronic heart failure - Elderly and frailty

Presentations on :
"Breathing patterns and ventilatory efficiency in elderly cardiac patients with and without left ventricular dysfunction before and after exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: the EU-CaRE study"
"Cardiac magnetic resonance predictors of readmission for heart failure in elderly vs not elderly patients after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction"
"1-year hospital readmissions due to cardiovascular causes after a heart failure episode in elderly patients in Spain"
"The HFFI, a new frailty index for assessing long-term outcomes in heart failure"
"Frailty and use of treatment in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction"
"The impact of frailty index on long-term outcome in CRT patients"