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Anne Margriet Pot
(Netherlands), Board of Directors
Anne Margriet Pot is clinical
psychologist and head of the Program on
Aging, and a member of the management team
of the Netherlands Institute on Mental
Health and Addiction, as well as a senior
researcher at the VU University Medical
Center in Amsterdam. She is registered as a
clinical psychologist and health care
psychologist. She is the former chair of the
Dutch Association on Psychology and Aging.
Dr. Pot has been active in the field of
Psychology and Aging for 20 years, not only
in scientific research, but also in academic
education and clinical practice. Her
interest is the psychological care for frail
older people and their family caregivers.
Her research started with her doctoral
thesis on the psychological distress of
family caregivers of people with dementia.
Dr. Pot’s current epidemiological and
intervention projects are focused on family
care and professional care in dementia and
psychiatric disorders and quality of life in
nursing home residents. She has been tutor
and supervisor of nursing home physicians,
social geriatricians and psychologists
working in the care for older people and has
been practising as a clinical psychologist
in nursing homes and an outpatient
psychiatric hospital.
Dr. Pot has published widely in her areas of
interest in scientific and professional
journals and most recently she has served as
first editor of the Handbook on
Geropsychology (In Dutch: Handboek
ouderenpsychologie). She actively stimulates
vocational training for geropsychologists in
the Netherlands and is involved in
organizing national and international
national congresses on Psychology and Aging.
Besides her membership in IPA, Dr. Pot is a
member of other professional associations:
the Netherlands Institute of Psychologists
(NIP), the Dutch Association Psychology and
Aging (VPO), the Dutch Association of
Psychogeriatrics, and the Gerontological
Society of America.
When not working she plays the flute.
Dr. Pot can be reached at
ampot@trimbos.nl.
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