Anne Margriet Pot, PhD
(Netherlands), Board of Directors

Anne Margriet Pot is professor of Clinical Geropsychology at the VU University in Amsterdam and of the Program on Aging of the Netherlands Institute on Mental Health and Addiction (Trimbos-institute) in Utrecht. She is registered as a clinical psychologist and health care psychologist. She is board member of the international Psychogeriatric Association and advisor of the Section Geropsychology of the Netherlands Institute of Psychologists (NIP).

Dr. Pot has been active in the field of Psychology and Aging for about 25 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 monitoring and intervention projects are focused on family care and professional care in dementia, psychiatric disorders and quality of life in nursing home residents and the mental health care for older adults. She has been tutor and supervisor of nursing home physicians, social geriatricians and psychologists working in the care for older people and has been working as a clinical psychologist in nursing homes and outpatient psychiatric hospitals.

Dr. Pot has published widely in her areas of interest in scientific and professional journals and 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 Mental Health and Aging.

Dr. Pot can be reached at ampot@trimbos.nl.
 

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