Age Anaesthesia Association (AAA) and the Irish Gerontological Society (IGS) , are holding  a joint conference in The Metropole Hotel, Cork, Ireland, on the 26^th and 27^th of March 2026. This first-of-its-kind meeting unites two leading societies to focus on the care of the older adult in surgery, bringing together the full perioperative pathway from assessment to recovery.

They anticipate robust engagement from anaesthetists, surgeons, geriatricians, nursing and health and social care professionals. Delegates will attend from Ireland, the UK, and across Europe, creating a unique multidisciplinary forum where evidence, innovation, and clinical practice meet. The scientific programme will feature keynote lectures spanning pre-operative optimisation and shared decision-making, frailty and multimorbidity, delirium prevention, peri-operative pain and cognition, polypharmacy and deprescribing, enhanced recovery, and service redesign. For more information and how to register for to the meeting, please visit: https://www.ageanaesthesia.com/