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, we have 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
