President's Message

Anne Margriet Pot, PhD
President (2024-2025)

Dear colleagues,

What a pleasure and honor to greet you as the new president of the IPA. I look forward to working with you in the coming years to ensure the growth and prosperity of our association. My presidency will be all about 'Being connected'. That motto is immediately reflected in the theme of our upcoming conference in Buenos Aires: 'Crossing oceans and connecting people to improve the mental health for older adults'. Not only do we want to reach out to hitherto underrepresented continents in our association, we also would like to strengthen integrative collaboration between different disciplines for better mental health and well-being of older persons. The fact that a nurse has now also joined the board is good news in this context. I would like to extend a warm welcome to her, Dr. Deborah Oliveira, as well as to the second joining board member, Dr. Rob Madan, who we already know through his esteemed chairmanship of our Products and Services committee. Finally, I would like to thank two people: Dr. Manabu Ikeda as our former president and Dr. Tzung-Jeng Hwang as our chief editor of this Bulletin, for their dedication to the IPA during the last years.

I look forward to meeting you all in Buenos Aires. 

Adiós,

Anne Margriet Pot