(Adnkronos) - “Bisogna cambiare lo stile di vita e al contempo ricorrere alle strategie della prevenzione, come gli screening e le vaccinazioni, che sono l'unica fonte gratuita di longevità”. Lo afferma Roberto Bernabei, presidente Italia Longeva, a margine del convegno ‘Prioritizzazione della prevenzione vaccinale contro le patologie respiratorie nell’anziano e nel fragile: esperti a confronto’, organizzato da Italia Longeva e svoltosi presso l’Auditorium Ministero della Salute a Roma.
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00:00G7 is talking about aging. Why is it important to open it again?
00:11First of all because it's the first time. G7 has launched a kind of proclamation saying
00:21Ladies and gentlemen, if we don't age well we risk costing too much
00:26because an old man in poor health costs a lot of money
00:30and these costs are no longer bearable by the national health services of any country.
00:37In Italy we have 22,000 centenarians, 2,000 more than last year,
00:45but we have almost a million over-90s.
00:48So it's obvious that if these over-90s don't get the best possible health,
00:55it's impossible to support anything.
00:58In Italian hospitals, general medicine, and the territory in general,
01:03they don't let us deal with this.
01:06We have to use the Blue Zone strategies,
01:11the places in the world where there is an excess of centenarians,
01:15in the sense of people who are in good health and are long-term,
01:19we have to change our lifestyle.
01:22And together with this, we have to use the prevention strategies.
01:28Screenings, you all know the mammogram, the women's BAP test,
01:33we have to be careful about diabetes, hypertension,
01:37a regular evaluation after 50 years,
01:41and together with this, vaccinations.
01:43Vaccinations are the only free source of longevity.
01:49Not being vaccinated by adults and elderly people,
01:51especially for influenza, pneumococcus, SARS, the old COVID,
01:57and herpes, is foolishness.
02:00Because you die, you die of influenza, you die of pneumonia,
02:04you are dead and you continue to die of COVID,
02:07you have a bad quality of life with herpes zoster,
02:12and you have to resort to vaccinations to prevent it.
02:15How can you fight the vaccine crisis?
02:18You have to fight it with campaigns,
02:22with many videos and many messages that subliminally affect people,
02:31and you have to tell them that if they want to go to the old age home
02:38and go to a quality old age home, they have to get vaccinated.
02:41Pilates is a lifestyle.
02:44Moving, physical exercise, fruit, vegetables and cereals,
02:49having a purpose in life, having a strong social and family life.
02:55These are the starting points,
02:57that everyone can and must decline personally.