Main topics of the Workshop are:

• Organize a European Network on the management of infections in LTCFs;

• How to approach UTI and LRTIs;

• HIV infection and management in elderly population;

• The best diagnostic approaches for diagnosis of infections;

• Share management and therapeutic models for infection control in the elderly in the hospital settings and in community;

• Harmonize European strategies in the field of infection prevention and vaccination;

• Monitoring and management of antibiotic therapy: PK/PD, drug-drug interactions and treatment duration;

• RCTs in the elderly and the example of MERINO and PETERPEN studies;

• The therapy in the end of life: modeling of antibiotic treatment.