Lecturer of Geriatrics at the Univeristy of Florence, Director of Geriatrics and Intensive Geriatric Care at the Hospital of Careggi, Prof. Andrea Ungar is also the president of teh Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG).

The main objective of his work – even at Guild LIving – is the promotion of a geriatric approach that reduces hospital care and disabilities and, in the long run, helps Italy face the “Elderly Population Emergency” caused by the ageing of its population.