Members

Academic, technical and administrative staff: 11 persons
PhD students: 9

Key words

Public health; ageing; dementia; quality of life; fragility; rehabilitation

Research topics

• Frail elderly people
• Quality of life in dementia
• Alzheimer disease and other dementia
• Cognitive disorder
• Quality of life in muscular disorder

Know-how

Clinical epidemiology: epidemiological surveys, cohort studies; evaluation; clinical tests (phases III and IV); metrological validation of quality of life tools

Partnerships

Academic partnerships: Laboratory of Psychology (URCA, France), Institut Psychologique (Université Lumière Lyon 2); APHP (Groupe hospitalier Sainte Perrine, Paris, France) ; APHP (Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France), l’Ecole de Santé Publique de NANCY, le Service de Gériatrie des Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (SUISSE), l’équipe de gériatrie du CHU de Dinant-Godinne (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique).

Specificities

• One of the French reference centres for memory and memory pathologies
• National and european co-ordination of several research networks: aged fragile subject; quality of life and dementia; ethics and dementia
• Interregional Grand-Est coordination of clinical research on Alzheimer’s disease