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Section Board
Carlos A. DE MENDONÇA LIMA, Chair
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave
Guimarães, 4800-PORTUGAL
Tel.: +351 963532158
Gabriela STOPPE, Co-Chair
Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken
Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27
Basel, 4025 SWITZERLAND
Tel.: +41 613255646
Jerzy LESZEK, Secretary
Department of Psychiatry
Wroclaw University of Medicine.
Kraszewskiego 25 St.
Wroclaw, 50-229 POLAND
Tel.: +48 713291460
Reinhard HEUN, Treasurer
Radbourne Unit
Royal Derby Hospital.
Uttoxeter Road
Derby, DE22 3NE UNITED KINGDOM
Tel.: + 44 7910322444
Members:
The section has 43 members from 16 countries.
Objectives of the Section:
To promote the discipline of Geriatric Psychiatry within the framework of EPA by:
1. ensuring that EPA Executive Committee and the Board are well informed of geriatric psychiatry issues,
2. organizing symposia and workshops at EPA congresses,
3. collaborating with other international organizations with similar interests and participating in major international meetings relevant to the discipline,
4. developing and disseminating educational material for practitioners in the field, and
5. providing technical support to relevant national organization and EPA members.
Recent and future activities:
1. “Promotion of Mental Health and Well being in Older People - making it happen”: a European Union thematic conference
The European Commission’s Directorate for Health and Consumers and the Ministry of Health and Social Affaires of Spain together with the support of the Presidency of Spain of the European Union organized at Madrid in June 2010 a European Union thematic conference on “Promotion of Mental health and Well being in Older People - making it happen”. EPA was represented by Dr. Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima who prepared a short report.
2. Symposia accepted for the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry, Vienna 2011:
1 - Update on Alzheimer’s disease: Diagnosis, Identification and Therapy
Chair: Reinhard Heun, UK
Co-Chair: Sube Banerjee, UK
Speaker 1:. Carlos A. de Mendonca Lima: Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dementia
Speaker 2: G. Stoppe: Detection of Dementia
Speaker 3: S. Banerjee: Issues in the pharmacological management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
Speaker 4: L. Froelich: Update on the pharmacotherapy of dementia
2 - Join Symposium of EPA Sections of Geriatric Psychiatry and Suicidology and Suicide Prevention
Preventing Suicide in Old Age
Chair: Carlos A. de Mendonça Lima
Co-Chair: Danuta Wasserman
Speaker 1: Dan Rujescu: Suicidality and Personality in Old Age
Speaker 2: Diego de Leo: Preventing suicide in Australia in Old Age
Speaker 3: Carlos A. de Mendonça Lima: Systematic review of preventing suicide in old age: 2005-2010
Speaker 4: Johannes Wancata: Risk for Suicide among the elderly: Is the Geriatric Depression Scale a useful screening tool?
Publications
A Consensus Meeting entitled ‘Development of Strategies, Policies and Actions in Education and Training in Old Age Psychiatry in Europe’ in Lausanne in June 2002 with the presence of a representative from the European Psychiatric Association led to the design and publication of a curriculum of Skill-Based Objectives in Old Age Psychiatry with the following reference:
GUSTAFSON L, BURNS A, KATONA C, BERTOLOTE JM, CAMUS V, COPELAND JRM, DUFEY AF, GRAHAM N, IHL R, KANOWSKI S, KÜHNE N, DE MENDONCA LIMA CA, MATEOS ALVAREZ R, RUTZ W, TATARU NL, TUDOSE C. Skill-based objectives for specialist training in old age psychiatry. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2003, 18: 686-693
Plans
1. “Promoting Social Inclusion and Combating Stigma for better Mental Health and Wellbeing”
To participate to the thematic Conference on stigma and social exclusion of people with mental health problems co-organized at Lisbon on November 2010 by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Consumers and by the Portuguese Ministry of Health.
2. EPA-SGP & WFSBP
To collaborate to the production of Guidelines in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Old Age.
3. EPA-SGP, WPA-SOAP & IPA
To collaborate with the WPA Section of Old Age Psychiatry and the International Psychogeriatric Association Task Force on Mental Health Services in Residential Facilities to realize in 2011 a consensus meeting on Residential Care for Old People with Mental Disorders.