Workshop on Aging, Functioning and Rehabilitation

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), heralded by The New York Times as the most esteemed and authoritative adviser on issues of health and medicine in the United States, together with the University of Lucerne, proudly presents an international workshop on Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation.

This special event will focus on the World Health Organization’s concept of functioning and its vital role in redefining health, with an emphasis on healthy aging and the future of rehabilitation as a key health strategy.

Participants will engage with world-renowned experts to explore:

• Functioning and the realization of healthy longevity through rehabilitation.
• Functioning and the investment case for the role of rehabilitation in healthy longevity
• The foundation for improving rehabilitation service delivery and care across the life course.
• Functioning as the key to a comprehensive 360-defree life-course foundation for healthy longevity research.
• Advocating for health and social policy in support of healthy longevity.

Set within the University of Lucerne's LIFE initiative, this workshop will be a crucial step in shaping a concrete public health agenda, underlining the growing importance of rehabilitation in the 21st century.

Date: February 16 & 17, 2024

Venue: Hörsaal 1,  University of Lucerne Frohburgstrasse 3, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland

Program: Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation A Workshop | National Academies
Registration:  https://events.nationalacademies.org/41714_02-2024_aging-functioning-and-rehabilitation-a-workshop

Contact Information: liferemove-this.@remove-this.unilu.ch

Highlights and Proceedings

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• Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation: Proceedings of a Workshop
• Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation: Proceedings of a Workshop

Expert Meeting on Standardized Assessment and Reporting of Functioning Data, October 18, 2024 in Washington at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

In October 2024, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine hosted a meeting of experts in rehabilitation, mental health, functioning and the ICF, ageing, outcome measurement, epidemiology, biostatistics, data science and artificial intelligence to discuss the challenges and lessons learned from efforts to implement standardized reporting of functioning information in rehabilition in the context of healthy longevity.
This commentary in the (National Academy of Medicine) NAM Perspectives draws on the points raised during this expert meeting to reinforce the importance of standardized reporting of functioning for the larger societal challenge of strengthening the impact of rehabilitation on healthy longevity.
 

Bickenbach et al. 2025_Standardized-Assessment-and-Reporting_NAM Perspectives paper