Sectorial Activities - Scientific Sections




Chair: E. Chiu
Co-Chair:C. Katona
Secretary:V. Camus
SECTION ON OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY

SUBSECTION OF DEMENTIA  

COMMITTEE

Chair: E. Chiu
Email:e.chiu@medicine.unimelb.edu.au

Co-Chair:C. Katona
Email:c.katona@ucl.ac.uk

Treasury:J.M. Léger
Email:JLeger6931@aol.com

Secretary:V. Camus
Email:Vincent.Camus@inst.hospvd.ch

Members:
N. Graham
Email:106077.702@compuserve.com
C.A. de Mendonça Lima
Email:CLimasj@yahoo.com


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SECTION

Goals: To promote the discipline of Old Age Psychiatry within the framework of WPA

Means
  1. To ensure that WPA executive committee and council are well informed of old age psychiatry issues
  2. To organise lectures, symposia and workshop at WPA regional meetings and world congresses
  3. To collaborate with other international organisations with similar interests, and to participate in major international meetings relevant to the discipline
  4. To develop and disseminate educational material for practitioners in the field
  5. To provide technical support to relevant national organisation and WPA member societies.


PLANS AND ACTIVITIES

Symposia to be proposed during following meetings:

  • Paris, June 2000, WPA Regional meeting
  • Nice, June 2001, IPA Congress
  • Melbourne, October 2001, WPA Regional meeting
  • London, May 2001, WPA Regional meeting
  • Yokohama, august 2002, WPA Congress


PUBLICATIONS
  • WPA/WHO: Psychiatry of the elderly: A consensus statement.(Doc: WHO/MNH/MND/96.7), Geneva:WHO, 1996; 11pages.
  • WPA/WHO: Organisation of care in Psychiatry of the Elderly: A technical consensus statement. (DOC: WHO/MSA/MNH/MND/97.3), Geneva:WHO, 1997; 15 pages.
  • WPA/WHO: Education in Psychiatry of the Elderly: A technical consensus statement. (DOC: WHO/MSA/MNH/MND/98.4), Geneva:WHO, 1998; 9 pages.

LAUSANNE TECHNICAL CONSENSUS STATEMENTS ON PSYCHIATRY OF THE ELDERLY
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH - GENEVA - 1999

PSYCHIATRY OF THE ELDERLY
A CONSENSUS STATEMENT
DIVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - GENEVA