Our Health is a new series of meetings between the University of Iceland and Landspítali University Hospital aimed at highlighting urgent issues of the current day in health and healthcare.

These monthly briefings are open to all and will be on the agenda every last Friday of the month. Questions are answered after the meetings are over and then there will also be panel discussions.

Supervision and editing by: Margrét Guðnadóttir

The situation and development of older people in Iceland in the last years will be examined.

The aim is to connect demographic changes and healthy ageing with the challenges of changing health status in the early years. Given that the population is aging rapidly, it is important to look at the diverse circumstances of the diverse group of older people. It is also possible to look at

Agenda

• Kolbeinn H. Stefánsson, Dean of Social Services Department – Demographics and Income: Is Poverty Relevant among Older People?

• Halldór S. Guðmundsson, Dean of the Social Services Department - Welfare and work of older people

• Anna Björg Jónsdóttir, Chief Medical Officer of Geriatric Medicine – Healthy Aging

• Margrét Guðnadóttir, director of the Centre for Geriatric Studies and a specialist in home nursing – Aging at home and adapting to the loss of health

• The chairperson is María Heimisdóttir, Director of Health

You can view more recordings of the sequence of meetings on the HI website.