Geriatric medicine

OOTT stands for Oriëntatie en OpvolgingsTraject Thuiszorg (orientation and follow-up programme) for vulnerable elderly people. This customised support ensure that you can continue to live at home under the best conditions for as long as possible.

The cardiology hospitalisation units at UZ Leuven have been involved in the G-COACH research project for the past three years. This project introduced extensive collaboration between the cardiovascular diseases and geriatrics departments, in which both teams joined forces to treat and monitor older patients.

A recent study by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer found that very elderly care home residents are receiving cancer diagnoses twenty times less than expected. These findings tie in with an existing theory that ageing of the body cells creates a natural protection mechanism for disease