Healthy Aging Hasselt University
Healthy aging - an Euregional challenge and opportunity: Aging is a progressively increasing problem of the EMR region compared to other West-European regions. The increasing number of elderly is associated with age related chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), asthma, chronic obstructive lung diseases (COPD), neurodegenerative (MS) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). This is even enhanced by an unhealthy lifestyle, present within ...