17th IPA International Congress
Scientific Program
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Keynote / Opening Session |
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| Steven R. Sabat (United States) | Balancing Cure with Care: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach to Treatment of People with Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Anne Margriet Pot (Switzerland) | Healthy Aging and Long Term Care for Older People: A Global Perspective |
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Featured Plenaries |
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| Patricia Areán (United States) | Technology and the Role it Plays in Cure and Care |
| Antonello Bonci (Italy/United States) | From Single Synapses to Clinical Studies: Therapeutic Developments from Optogenetics |
| Wolfgang Hoffmann (Germany) | Dementia Care Provision in Geriatric Psychiatry: Bridging the Gap Between Individual Needs and Care Structure |
| Julian Hughes (United Kingdom) | Balancing Cure with Care in Late Life Mental Health: The Demands of Authenticity |
| Sherry Willis (United States) | Cognition and Aging: The Good, Not So Good and Potential Plasticity |
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Featured Symposia |
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Technology |
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| Franka Meiland, Chair (Netherlands) | Technological Support in Dementia and Late Life Depression |
| Maurice Mulvenna (United Kingdom) | Monitoring and Analysis of Sleep Patterns of People with Dementia |
| Josien Schuurmans (Netherlands) | eCare@home: Tablet-Based Ambient Assistance for Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder or Recurrent Depressive Episodes |
| Jeffrey Soar (Australia) | Technological Support for Dementia and Ageing |
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Care Concepts for Challenging Behavior |
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| Helen Kales, Chair (United States) | Care Concepts for Challenging Behavior |
| Henry Brodaty (Australia) | Strategies for Helping People with BPSD |
| Claudia Cooper (United Kingdom) | The START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) Intervention: Randomised Controlled Trial and Implementation |
| Ann Kolanowski (United States) | Care Concepts for Challenging Behavior: Wish We Would Have Known That! |
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Delirium |
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| Hochang (Ben) Lee, Chair (United States) | Delirium: Pre-Operative Cognitive Impairment as a Risk Factor for Post-Operative Neuropsychiatric Complications |
| Donna Fick (United States) | Innovations in Delirium Assessment and Early Results of a Nurse Led Multi-Dimensional Cluster Randomized Trial Intervention for Delirium Superimposed on Dementia |
| Kotaro Hatta (Japan) | Preventive Effects of Ramelteon on Delirium in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia |
| Daniel Davis (United Kingdom) | Delirium and Dementia Neuropathology: Population Perspective |
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Adequate Treatment of Depressive Disorder in Late Life |
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| Ken Laidlaw, Chair (United Kingdom) | Age-Appropriate Augmented CBT for Late-Life Depression (co-presenting) |
| Naoko Kishita (United Kingdom) | Age-Appropriate Augmented CBT for Late-Life Depression (co-presenting) |
| Andres Losada (Spain) | Psychotherapeutic Strategies for Reducing Depressive Symptoms in Dementia Family Caregivers |
| Akihiko Nunomura (Japan) | Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Changes in Elderly Patients with Depression: Possible Reversal by Brain Stimulation |
| Christina Röcke (Switzerland) | The Intra-Individual Dynamics of Emotions in Everyday Life: Insights Regarding Depression in Adulthood and Old Age |
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Sleep Disorders |
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| Adam Spira, Chair (United States) | Does Disturbed Sleep Promote Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology? |
| Dieter Kunz (Germany) | Melatonin as Treatment Option in Neurodegenerative Disorders |
| Naoko (Nana) Tachibana (Japan) | Transitional State from Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder to Dementia with Lewy Bodies – A Challenge to Sleep Medicine and Psychogeriatrics |
| Katharina Wulff (United Kingdom) | The Role of Photoreception and Light Intervention for Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disturbances in the Elderly |
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Resilience |
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| Kathy Murphy, Chair (Ireland) | |
| Kate Bennett (United Kingdom) | Resilience in Older Widowed People: Applying an Ecological Framework |
| Dympna Casey (Ireland) Karlijn Joling (Netherlands) | Resilience in Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia |
| Helen Lavretsky (United States) | Resilience and Late Life Mood and Cognitive Disorders |
| Gill Windle (United Kingdom) | Psychological Resilience: An Important Resource in Later Life? |
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Tau Imaging |
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| John O’Brien, Chair (United Kingdom) | |
| Brad Dickerson (United States) | Tau PET Imaging in Neurodegenerative Dementias |
| Nobuyuki Okamura (Japan) | Tau PET Imaging with THK Tau Tracers |
| Christopher Rowe (Australia) | Tau Imaging in Dementia – Challenges and Achievements |
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Hosted Symposia |
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Advances in Home Based Dementia Care Hosted by: European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (EAGP) |
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| Afifa Qazi, Chair (United Kingdom) | Changing Practice to Reduce Admissions for People with Dementia |
| Manuel Franco (Spain) | Assistive Technologies to Support Independent Living in People with Dementia: The Experience in Urban and Rural Areas of Zamora, Spain |
| Günter Klug (Austria) | Home Care in Dementia |
| Martin Orrell (United Kingdom) | Understanding the Causes and Solutions for Crises in Dementia |
| Nele Spruytte (Belgium) | Online Psycho-Education to Empower Caregivers of People with Dementia in the Management of Night-Time Agitation (OPEC-D) |
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Social Health and Dementia Hosted by: INTERventions in DEMentia (INTERDEM) |
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| Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Chair (Netherlands) | Social Health and the Potential for New Outcomes to Better Understand Living with Dementia |
| Murna Downs (United Kingdom) | Promoting Social Health for People Affected by Dementia: An Online Module for National Health Service Staff |
| Yun-Hee Jeon (Australia) | Optimising Social Health of People Living With Dementia and Family Caregivers Through Person-Centered and Reablement Approaches to Care |
| Martina Roes (Germany) | Concepts of Autonomy in Person-Centered Dementia Care and Research as an Aspect of Social Health |
