Our Brand

I dedicate to the Ana Aslan International Foundation all my experience, as a physician, researcher, and educator, committing myself to this path with passion. I regard the excellence of the Ana Aslan International Academy of Aging brand as drawing new vigour from the holistic approach to aging and longevity, one that is quantifiable from the viewpoint of both the specialist and the user of Ana Aslan International Academy of Aging services. This desideratum can be attained with the help of the combined efforts of science, technology, ethics and education in the field of Preventative, Predictive, Personalised and Participative Holistic Medicine.
Conf. Univ. Dr. LUIZA SPIRU,
President of the Ana Aslan International Foundation

The principles and values of our organisation have come together to form the Ana Aslan International Academy of Aging brand

Our brand represents excellence in the field of the medicine of longevity and the prevention of brain aging through timely identification of individual risk factors and a personalised attitude towards the otherwise irreversible aging process.

In the 1950s, it was Professor Ana Aslan who raised for the first time the question of the complexity of the aging process, the dramatic aging of the populace in the future, and the need for a specialised medicine dedicated to the aging individual and the problems of this irreversible phenomenon.

There were few people who understood her genius at the time.  The brilliance of her medical thinking had as its corollary concepts of a preventative and curative order that have radically transformed not only scientific perceptions but also the common perception of the phenomenon of aging.  In this respect, the work of Ana Aslan grants major importance and interest to brain aging.

Today, the Ana Aslan International Academy of Aging has adopted, redefines and develops the concept elaborated by Prof. Ana Aslan, the holistic-integrative approach to the individual phenomenon of aging, within the framework of which cerebral aging as a major factor of risk in modern and consumer society represents a central reference point.
In April 2001, emeritus scientists from all over the world decided, in the capacity of founder members, to establish the Ana Aslan International Foundation.

The Foundation’s Statutes at the same time provide for an elite academic forum—the Ana International Academy of Aging—whose managing board brings together eminent international figures in the fields of medical science, education, technology, information technology, and communications. Its purpose, that of initiating, elaborating, implementing and supporting specific projects and programmes of research and education, as well as ones of a cultural nature, is reflected in the objectives laid out in the statutes.

Initiation, organisation and financing of:

• Programmes for the development in Romania of holistic-integrative services, in the field of the medicine of longevity, preventative medicine and determination of factors of individual risk in cerebral aging, and the creation and development of a homecare system for persons with cognitive and physical disabilities
• Social medicine programmes for persons without an income or those below the poverty line, with the aim of preventing their social marginalisation and promoting the requalification and professional reintegration of these disadvantaged categories
• Medical centres, units and clinic whose structure includes services of multidisciplinary scientific investigation, provided by personnel with the highest qualifications: medical experts, psychologists, nurses, speciaists in rehabilitation and physical therapy, etc.
• Programmes for the medical rehabilitation and social reintegration of the elderly, for their participation in economic, social and cultural activities, for the support of those who wish to utilise surplus labour, and for the administrative counselling of elderly persons in difficult situations
• Medical homecare services for the elderly and persons with mental/physical disabilities
• Academic and popular programmes dedicated to education in the fields of geriatrics/gerontology, gerontopsychiatry and the medicine of longevity, in concordance with the legislation in force, in order to contribute to the creation of a highly qualified specialist workforce
• Educational and training projects and programmes for those working in this field, for counsellors and also for the counselling of persons who look after the elderly or persons with physical and/or mental disabilities

Publication, support and promotion, under the auspices of the Ana Aslan International Academy of Aging, of Brain Aging International Journal, edited by a prestigious international board

Development of fundamental and applied scientific research, as well as transfer of expertise in the field of research into cerebral aging to universities and research centres all over the world

Award of study and research grants in Romania and abroad for undergraduates, postgraduates and physicians
Promotion of co-operation with organisations, institutes, academies, universities and social medicine institutions in Romania and abroad that are engaged in the creation of a durable and competitative health system