International Psychogeriatric Association
12th  Congress
Stockholm, Sweden
20-24 September 2005

Aging with Dignity 
-new challenges  -new possibilities  -new solutions  

Keynote, Plenary & Symposia

Keynote
Awardee of the IPA Luigi Amaducci Memorial Award – 2005.
The selection of this awardee is in process.

Plenary
Kaj Blennow (Sweden) - CSF Markers in MCI and Alzheimer's Disease
Ezio Giacobini (Switzerland) - New approaches for treating Alzheimer's Disease
Ingalill Hallberg (Sweden) - Caring at the End of Life for the Demented and Non-Demented Elderly
Dilip Jeste (United States) - Psychosis in Late Life: New Solutions to Old Problems?
Ranga Krishnan (United States) - Neurobiological changes in late life depression
Simon Lovestone (United Kingdom) - Molecular pathology of Alzheimer's disease
Carolyn Mazure (United States) - Life events, stress and depression
Stephen Minger (United Kingdom) - Stem cell transplantation for dementia
Agneta Nordberg (Sweden) - Novel imaging methods in dementia
Charles Reynolds (United States) - Optimizing Treatments and Outcomes in Late Life Depression
Masatoshi Takeda (Japan) - Mild Cognitive Impairment
Anders Wimo (Sweden) - Are treatments for dementia worth it? A health economic perspective

Symposia
Anti-amyloid therapies – Chair: Teresa Gomez-Isla, Spain

Anxiety and neurotic disorders – Chair: James Lindesay, United Kingdom 

Apathy in dementia, the forgotten symptom; An EADC perspective – Chair: E. Jane Byrne, United Kingdom

Are 'functional' psychiatric disorders different in older people? – Chair: Alan Thomas, United Kingdom

Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia: views from the European Alzheimer Disease Consortium (EADC) – Chairs: Frans Verhey , Netherlands and Philippe Robert, France

BPSD – Chair Richard Schulz, United States
   
Challenges of ageing research in low-income countries – Chair: Zarina Nahar Kabir, Sweden

Clinical assessment tools and outcome measures in DLB: How to do it – Chair: Ian McKeith, United Kingdom

Clinical meaningfulness of anti-dementia treatment – Chair: Ken Rockwood, Canada

Clinical use of neuroimaging – Chair: Giovanni Frisoni, Italy

Cognitive training – Chairs: Serge Gauthier and Sylvie Belleville, Canada

Cross-cultural perspectives on caregiving for older adults with dementia: Examining Mainland China, Taiwan, and Chinese immigrants to the US – Chairs: Sue E. Levkoff, United States Huali Wang, China

Delirium – Chair: Benjamin Liptzin, United States

Dementia: Minds and real people – Chairs: Stephen Louw and Julian C. Hughes, United Kingdom

Dementia in developing countries - first results from the 10/66 Dementia Research Group Population-Based Studies – Chairs: Henry Brodaty, Australia, Elizabeth Rimmer and Martin Prince, United Kingdom

Driving and dementia – Chair, João Machado, Brazil
   
Elderly suicide prevention – an International Perspective – Chair: Helen Fung-kum Chiu, Hong Kong

Electroconvulsive Therapy: new research and use in the elderly - Chairs: Knut Engedal, Norway and Björn Wahlund, Sweden

Epidemiology of dementia in Latin America – Chair: Cassio Machado de Campos Bottino, Brazil

Evaluation and management of dementia in South Korea – Chair: Jonghan Park, South Korea

Evidence-based dementia diagnostic – Chair: Knut Engedal, Norway

Instrumentation and Assessment in Culturally Diverse Populations with Dementia – Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association

Meta-analyses of dementia trials – Chair: Rupert McShane, United Kingdom

Metabolic aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) – Chair: Jacobo Mintzer, United States

Mild cognitive impairment: concept, diagnosis, and management – Chair: Alexander Kurz, Germany

Mild cognitive impairment. Results from the DESCRIPA study – Chairs: Pieter Jelle Visser and Frans Verhey, Netherlands

The neurobiology of late-life depression: an update – Chair: Alan Thomas,  United Kingdom

Neuropsychiatric aspects of alcohol use in older people – Chair: Henry O'Connell, Ireland

New and emerging treatments for Alzheimer's disease: Current data and biomolecular pathogenic mechanisms – Chairs: Barry Reisberg, United States and Alistair Burns, United Kingdom

The NIMH clinical antipsychotic trial of intervention effectiveness - Alzheimer's disease (CATIE-AD): An early look at outcomes – Chairs: Lon Schneider and Pierre N. Tariot, United States

Palliative Care in Dementia - Chair: Julian C. Hughes, United Kingdom

Preventing dementia: Some good and not so good ideas – Chair: Osvaldo P. Almeida, Australia

Promoting dignity for older people – translating theory into practice – Chairs: Antony Bayer and Winn Tad, United Kingdom

Psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease – Chair: Dag Aarsland, Norway

Psychogeriatric service delivery - from principles to outcomes – Chairs: Brian Draper and Henry Brodaty, Australia and Pam Melding, New Zealand

Quality assurance in geriatric psychiatry – Chair: Ralf Ihl, Germany

Quality of life in dementia: from measurement to interventions – Chair: Peter Whitehouse, United States

Recent Advances in Frontotemporal Dementia – Chairs: Lars Gustafson, Sweden and Andrew Kertesz, Canada

The role of cardiovascular risk factors in Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and mild cognitive impairment – Chair: Michael Davidson, Israel

Screening for cognitive impairment in primary care – Chair: Henry Brodaty, Australia

Sexuality and dementia - Chair: James Warner, United Kingdom

Somatoform disorders among older people - Chair: Bart Sheehan, United Kingdom and Chanaka Wijeratne, Australia

Specific approaches to Alzheimer's screening – Chairs: Ruth O'Hara and J. Wesson Ashford, United States

Squalor: Contemporary Issues – Chairs: Ajit Shah, United Kingdom and Kirsten Abelskov, Denmark

Supporting high quality care for persons with dementia in the nursing home context - Chair: Anna-Karin Edberg, Sweden

Teaching and training in old age psychiatry in Europe – Chairs: Nicoleta Tataru, Romania and Vincent Camus, Switzerland

The European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium - Chairs: Bruno Vellas, France and Bengt Winblad, Sweden

Treatment Studies in Depression and Anxiety – Chair: Thea J. Heeren, Netherlands 

Using psychotherapy in psychogeriatric practice – Chair: Joel Sadavoy, Canada

Vascular cognitive and behavioural disorders – Chair: Leonardo Pantoni, Italy

Younger people with dementia – Chair: Robert Barber, United Kingdom

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