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17th IPA International Congress

Scientific Program

Keynote / Opening Session

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

Featured Plenaries

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

Featured Symposia

Technology

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

Care Concepts for Challenging Behavior

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!

Delirium

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

Adequate Treatment of Depressive Disorder in Late Life

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

Sleep Disorders

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

Resilience

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?

Tau Imaging

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

Hosted Symposia

Advances in Home Based Dementia Care  Hosted by: European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (EAGP)

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)

Social Health and Dementia  Hosted by: INTERventions in DEMentia (INTERDEM)

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

Acknowledgements

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Avanir Pharmaceuticals Cambridge University Press
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