Tuesday, October 13

2^nd International Conference on Capacity - The Science of Decision Making
08:30 - 16:30, Room 5

Carmelle Peisah, Chair (Australia)
Robin Jacoby (United Kingdom)
Benjamin Lipzin (United States)
Jay Luxenberg (United States)
Ken Shulman (Canada) - Mock Trial: International Consensus on the Role of the Expert Witness and Lawyer-Health Professional Interactions
Malcolm Schyvens (Australia) - Plenary: 50 Shades of Capacity in Protective Jurisdictions
Sanford Finkel (United States) - Plenary: How to Survive and Thrive in Large and Complex Will Contests: Trials and Tribulations
Cees Hertogh (the Netherlands)
Linda Clare (United Kingdom)
Saskia Teunisse (the Netherlands) - Plenary Tryptic: Capacity and Awareness: How to Include People with Decision Making Disability

Free Communication Sessions

Kenneth Shulman (Canada) – Cognitive Fluctuations and the Lucid Interval in Dementia
Sharon Reutens (Australia) – Have Drugs Will Travel
Gary Freedman-Harvey (United States) – Increased Vulnerability to Undue Influence Related to Vascular Cognitive Impairment
Paul Kingston (United Kingdom) – Lifestyle Choice or the Result of Cognitive Dysfunction? Older Adults Who Self-Neglect
Tatyana Shteinlukht (United States) – Geriatric Psychiatry and Law Seminar – Innovative Way of Teaching Forensics and Ethics During Psychiatry Residency
Sue Field (Australia) – Powers of Attorney – Are They Worth the Paper They Are Written On?
Jochen Vollmann (Germany) – Ethics of Mental Capacity Assessment
Karin Sparring Björkstén (Sweden) – Physician’s Statement to the Court About Elderly with Memory Impairment in Sweden Have Serious Short-Comings
Chi-Leung Lam (Hong Kong) – Assessing Financial Capacity for Older Adults in Hong Kong: A Review and the Way Forward
Cesar Rodriguez (United Kingdom) - The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act of 2000: Improving Knowledge and Compliance in Acute Hospitals in Tayside, Scotland

4^th IPA Long Term Care Colloquium - Cutting Edge Technologies in Care of Older People
08:45 - 16:30, Room 4

Wendy Moyle, Chair (Australia) - Robotic Seals – What Do We Know About their Impact on People with Dementia?
Stefanie Baisch (Germany) - Acceptance of Social-Emotional Robotics: Do Elderly People like it Better than Caregivers?
Glenda Cook (United Kingdom) - Enhancing Social Interaction and the Network of Care in Sheltered Housing through an Advanced ICT System: Care Manager
David Conn (Canada) - Telehealth and Older People
Alessandro Di Nuovo (United Kingdom) -Toward Usable and Acceptable Elderly-Robot Interfaces: The Robot-Era Project Experience
Luc de Witte (the Netherlands) - Technology Supporting Independent Living Elderly Persons: From Walking Cane to Robot Companion
Heather Draper (United Kingdom)
Professor Tom Sorell (United Kingdom) - The Risks and Benefits of Robots and Assistive Technology
Cindy Jones (Australia) - Using Emotion Recognition Video Coding to Determine Robotic Intervention Outcomes
Ray Jones (United Kingdom) - Skype on Wheels in Care Homes: A New Design
Barbara Klein (Germany) - Companion Robots
Anne Margriet Pot (Switzerland) - Innovative Technology for People with Dementia and their Caregivers
Stephen Von Rump (Sweden) - Integrating Mobile Telepresence into Telehealth Platforms for Home Care

Imaging and Biomarkers Workshop
09:00 - 16:30, Room 3

John O’Brien, Co-Chair (United Kingdom) - Overview of Imaging and Other Biomarkers and New Diagnostic Criteria for Dementia
Philip Scheltens, Co-Chair (the Netherlands) - Practical Use of MR Imaging: How to Rate Medial Temporal Atrophy
Klaus Ebmeier (United Kingdom) - The Role of Amyloid PET for the Diagnosis of Dementia
Karl Herholz (United Kingdom) - Balancing Cure with Care in Late Life Mental Health: The Demands of Authenticity
Evelien Lemstra (the Netherlands) - Use of CSF and Blood Biomarkers for Diagnosis
Leonardo Pantoni (Italy) - Use of CT Imaging in Dementia
Zuzana Walker (United Kingdom) - FP-CIT (DaTSCAN) SPECT Imaging as a Diagnostic Tool for the Assessment of DLB
Mike Wattjes (the Netherlands) - CT and MR: Basic Introduction, Advantages and Disadvantages, How Images are Formed and Current Imaging Methods

Opening Session & Keynote Address
17:00 - 19:00, Convention Hall II

Steven Sabat
Balancing Cure with Care: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach to Treatment of People with Alzheimer’s Disease

Anne Margriet Pot (Switzerland)
Healthy Ageing and Long Term Care for Older People: a Global Perspective

Opening Reception
19:00 - 20:30, Exhibition Hall