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Welcome
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Our goal is:
"AGING FIT AS A
FIDDLE"
I opened a coffee-shop for seniors in
Cuxhaven / Germany.
We not only serve
free coffee, cake and pastries here,
we also help the elderly and teach them some exercises
to help them prevent Alzheimer disease.
A new study suggests that regular exercise
not only keeps people fit and healthy it may actually help
to prevent the onset of dementia.
Our work will get older people fit in mind and body,
offering them the chance to get physically active,
access preventative health support
and meet other older people at the
same time.
Age should be no barrier when it comes to fitness.
But this was not really satisfying -
that´s why
I founded the
"Institut of Geriatric Medizine & Gerontology Cuxhaven".
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For now
follow some links to websites
which might be interesting to you:
The
International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics(IAGG)
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Ageing
International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA)
The
Gerontological Society of America
The UN has identified 7 Millenium
Development Goals:
Eradication of Poverty
Universal Education
Gender Equality
Reduction of Child Mortality
Maternal Health
Conquest of AIDS
Global Partnerships for Developement
While issues of ageing and older persons are not specifically
mentioned in the MDGs, in fact they cross-cut
all of these goals.
More about my part in this business
and the part of the
Institut of Geriatric Medizine & Gerontology Cuxhaven
you can learn when the English site is online.
Please be patient with me:
My 84 years aged mother suffers from AMD,
Atrophic (dry form) Macular Degeneration.
I searched worldwide for drugs or treatment
and finally had a date now July 5, 2007
with Prof. Dr. med. Frank Koch in Frankfurt/Germany.
Here is the link to the clinik:
Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University Eye Clinic, Frankfurt
It was a great experience in the
clinic,
and what else can I say but a
BIG THANK YOU
Prof.Dr. Frank Koch !
Here are some photos from Frankfurt: |
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I made the 500 miles a two-days-trip,
and the night we spend in a hotel. |
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The entrance to the Eye-Clinic
It is a small town in the City of Frankfurt. |
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It was good to have the power chair with us. |
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from left to right:
Prof. Dr. med Frank Koch
Mother
Dr. med. Michael Koss |
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I am very happy that we were in Frankfurt.
We have a new diagnosis now,
and I know how to treat my mother. |
Why do I publish it all it ?
Because I just got started and this is a very first beginning.
I started to make connections in Germany, in Europe, and overseas.
Replies I received from USA:
NEUROTEC USA:
Dear Rolf,
It sounds like you are working hard to support the
elderly, and we very much applaud and appreciate your effort!
Thank you for your enthusiasm and interest in our
technology and our clinical trials. These US studies will take two to
three years to complete, and then the results will be submitted for
review and consideration by the FDA. Depending on the study outcomes
and the favorability of the FDA's review, the treatment will either be
made available, or will enter expanded clinical studies. We are
optimistic, but - as I am sure you can understand - we can not promise
any specific timeline. I would anticipate that additional studies may
be undertaken overseas in order to facilitate regulatory approval of the
technology outside the US, and
potentially provide some benefit to patients in Germany and elsewhere,
but please be aware that we can not address any specific timeline
for that effort right now.
I hope this is helpful.
For now, we wish you and
yours best regards, and good health ...
POTENTIA PHARMACEUTICALS:
Dear Rolf,
thank you very much for your email, it was very appreciated. I am
very touched by what you are accomplishing and I think the world
needs more people like that. As for our drug, at this point, we are
only testing its safety in patients, not its efficacy, unfortunately.
We are testing the drug in a very small group of patients (15-18
patients) in a formulation that is not expected to provide
therapeutic benefits. If everything goes well, we will initiate a
Phase II trial, that will involve a formulation that is expected to
provide benefits, but that is probably not going to happen before
mid-2008 at the earliest and will probably be limited to the US at
that point. Not that we won’t accept international patients, but
that the treatment will be conducted at a specific number of US
clinics. Getting international centers involved would increase the
logistics and legal complexities by a significant amount.
Thanks again and please, keep in touch!
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Yes, I will keep in touch !
Anytime
you are welcome in Cuxhaven / Germany in my Institut !
If you need another reason
for a flying visit to Cuxhaven/Germany:
Here I link to an International
event
which takes place from August 15 - 17, 2008 in Cuxhaven:
Thanks for your time !
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