The call for late breaking news abstracts is now closed!

Submission deadline was: 15 May 2009

The Scientific Committee will review all abstracts submitted on time, within the specified format. The organisers reserve the right to reject any abstract for failure to comply with submission guidelines above mentioned as published on the conference website and/or or communicated via the organisers.
Abstracts may be accepted as they stand. In some cases, the Scientific Committee may accept an abstract provided that the submitter accepts modifications necessary to improve the abstract.

Notification of acceptance 

All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission by e-mail no later than 10 June 2009. Further details will be sent to the registered presenting authors giving the time, session and place of accepted presentations. The abstracts will be definitely accepted once the organisers have replied and confirmed their participation.
If e-mail notification is not received by 10 June 2009, please contact the organising secretariat at programme@gerontologyparis2009.com 

Registration of presenting authors

Please note that submitting an abstract for presentation at the 19th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics does not constitute registration for the congress. Presenters are required to register and pay the registration fee.
All authors accepted for presentation must register for the congress in order to confirm their presentation. Failure to do this could result in losing your presentation slot.
Online registration are now open on the congress website at www.gerontologyparis2009.com. Accommodation and transportation are the responsibility of the participant.

Withdrawal of a submitted abstract

If you want to withdraw a submitted abstract please contact us at programme@gerontologyparis2009.com  

Agreement and disclosure

All authors are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest. Speakers are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current presentation in the first slide of their presentation. Session chairs are requested to disclose potential conflict of interest regarding the topics of the presentations during their session in the first slide of the session. Poster presenters are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current poster presentation at the bottom of their poster. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation. Potential conflicts of interest can involve: grants, honoraria, shares, paid positions on advisory boards, etc.
By submitting an abstract, all proposed participants agree that:

• the abstract must comply with ethical guidelines for scientific research in general, and in particular for human and animal research
• the IAGG Paris 2009 Scientific Committee will not consider incomplete abstracts or any abstract including persons who are not eligible (see guidelines above)
• each abstract submitter is committed to participate to the congress in case of acceptance
• in case the abstract is accepted, each presenter accepts the conditions of participation to the congress as defined by the organisers
• the Scientific Committee may require changes in topics for the abstract before final acceptance
• the organisers may refuse any change to an abstract after it has been accepted by the Scientific Committee, and therefore may reject an abstract which would no longer correspond to the approved abstract. Any change must have the prior approval of the Scientific Committee
• In no event will the organisers be liable for the content of an abstract with respect to its participants or any other person or institution.