Salomone (Ferrero Foundation): “Many of our activities have resulted in useful scientific research”

“The elderly’s ability to socialize, to lead a very active life created the conditions for the elderly’s life to have a much higher quality than that which is normally expected at the end of professional life”. This was stated by Bartolomeo Salomone, president of Ferrero Spa and secretary general of the Ferrero Foundation on the occasion of the Healthy Aging Week 2021, a week of in-depth studies dedicated to successful aging organized by the Ferrero Foundation which called to Alba, to discuss the strength and vulnerability of senior, national and international experts. “In 1983 – explained Salomone – our founder wanted with determination the creation of this Foundation to meet the needs of people who had finished their operational activity but who had not yet finished their life, indeed they were starting a new cycle of life. Ferrero wanted to be present also in this second phase almost as a thank you for what they had done in their professional life by aggregating all the activities of these elderly people around the Foundation. The result was an incredible experience that also had results in medical and in which universities and national and international research centers have been interested “.” The internationality of our activities is fundamental – he added – because many of these responses, of these innovations that occur in the field of medicine and research are of a international and all this is summarized in the activity of the Foundation which summarizes the inter no of your logo ‘to work, to create, to give’ its mission a little. That of medicine is the moment of giving in the sense that by bringing together the greatest luminaries of medicine and research in Alba, in the Foundation, we believe it is a contribution that we try to give to the world of science which then falls favorably on everyone “, he concluded.