A warm welcome to the website of the International Osteoporosis Academy.

The International Osteoporosis Academy (IOA) is aimed at facilitating sound information for patients which is based on the latest scientific findings. Experts are working on an interdisciplinary and cross-border basis towards developing a new model of training for patients.

More and more people in Europe suffer from chronic diseases but the numbers will increase even more in the next decades due to the rise in demographic figures. To have therapy and deal with these chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease or osteoporosis, it is becoming critical for those affected to become actively and self-responsibly involved.

This requires making available comprehensive and sustainable information about the disease, and possibilities of diagnosis and therapies, including any necessary changes in lifestyle.

The training of patients, when organised in an interactive and patient-friendly way, can contribute to an improvement in the life quality of patients with osteoporosis.