Wednesday, October 14

Symposia 1
10:00 - 11:30, Convention Hall II

Technological Support in Dementia and Late Life Depression

Franka Meiland - Technological Support in Dementia and Late Life Depression
Josien Shuurmans - eCare@home - Tablet-Based Ambient Assistance for Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder or Recurrent Depressive Episodes
Maurice Mulvenna - Monitoring and Analysis of Sleep Patterns of People with Dementia
Jeffrey Soar - Technological Support for Dementia and Ageing

Symposia 2
10:00 - 11:30, Room 1

Delirium

Ho-Chang (Ben) Lee - Overview + Pre-Operative Cognitive Impairment as a Risk Factor for Post-Operative Neuropsychiatric Complications
Donna Fick - Innovations in Delirium Assessment and Early Results of a Nurse Led Multi-Dimensional Cluster Randomized Trial Intervention for DSD
Kotaro Hatta - Preventative Effects of Ramelteon on Delirium in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia
Daniel Davis - Delirium and Dementia Neuropathology: Population Perspective

Free Communication Session 1
10:00 - 11:30, Room 2

 

Service Delivery & Curriculum Development and Training

Leontine Groen van de Ven - Competencies for Professionals Facilitating Shared Decision-Making in Care Networks of People with Dementia
Greg Swanwick - Development of e-Learning for Multidisciplinary Psychogeriatric Education
Olusegun Baiyewu - Psychogriatric Services in Nigeria
Dawn Brooker - Translating an Evidence Based Intervention From the Netherlands to Italy, Poland and United Kingdom: the Meeting Centres Support Programme for People and Families Living with Dementia at Home
Kate-Ellen Elliott - A Measure of Occupational Communion to Inform the Design and Evaluation of Dementia Care Workforce Development Interventions
Leon Flicker - Assessing People with Dementia: The Role of the Aged Care Assessment Team and Memory Clinics

IPA Member Forum
10:00 - 11:30, Room 3

Shared Interest: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)
How to Implement Interventions to Reduce BPSD in Long Term Care Homes?

Increased attention of BPSD during the last decades has led to several research initiatives worldwide on pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions and programs aimed to reduce BPSD and inappropriate psychotropic drug prescription. The current challenge is to go beyond the research phase and implement successful interventions and care programs in different countries with different organization of care for people with dementia.

Helen C. Kales (United States): the DICE Program for Assessment and Management of BPSD
Sandra Zwijsen (the Netherlands): GRIP on Challenging Behavior, a Multidisciplinary Care Program for Managing BPSD in Nursing Home Residents
Daniela Holle (Germany): Dementia-Specific Case Conferences in Nursing Homes (FallDem)
Sytse Zuidema (the Netherlands): Participatory Action Research as a Research Tool to Increase Care and Treatment of BPSD in Nursing Homes

Symposia 4
13:15 - 14:45, Convention Hall II

Resilience and Ageing

Katy Murphy -Resilience and Ageing (overview)
Gill Windle - Psychological Resilience: an Important Resource in Later Life?
Dympna Casey & Karlijn Joling - Resilience in Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
Kate Benett - Resilience in Older Widowed People: Applying an Ecological Framework
Helen Lavretsky - Resilience and Late Life Mood and Cognitive Disorders

Symposia 5
13:15 - 14:45, Room 1

Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders

Yolande Pijnenburg - Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders: Neuropathology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration – An Update
Albert Ludolph - Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders: FTD and ALS
Dr Jort Vijverbergh - Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders: Diagnostic Accuracy of The FTD Consensus Criteria in the Late Onset Frontal Lobe Syndrome
Annemiek Dols - Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders: Towards a Diagnostic Paradigm for Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

Free Communication Session 2
13:15 - 14:45, Room 2

Non-Pharmacological and Psychosocial Interventions

Leontine Groen van de Ven - Rapids and Ripples: Decisions Over the Course of the Dementia Trajectory
Nina Jøranson - Effects of Participation in Robot-Assisted Activity Groups for Nursing Home Patients with Dementia on Symptoms of Agitation and Depression – A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
Ian Weatherhead - Supporting Carers with Peripatetic Specialist Admiral Nurse Clinics
Clarissa Giebel - What Makes People with Dementia Get Lost in The Supermarket? Relating Cognition To Everyday Activities
Ana Rita Silva - Using Sensecam to Stimulate Cognitive Function and Decrease Depressive Symptoms in Mild Alzheimer Disease
Nicola Lautenschlager - Physical Activity for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: How to Translate the Evidence into Practice

IPA Member Forum
13:15 - 14:45, Room 3

Shared Interest Forum: Long-Term Care (LTC)
"Optimizing the Use of Psychotropic Medications in Long Term Care Homes"

The optimal use of psychotropic medications in long term care homes around the globe remains very challenging. There is evidence to suggest that rates of prescription of various groups of psychotropics remain high in almost all countries although a “gold standard” remains elusive. We will review the latest data with regard to pharmacoepidemiology, as well as attempts to define appropriate use of these medications. Concerns have been focused primarily on rates of use of antipsychotic medications and some countries have set targets for reduced rates of use. We will review data on a variety of interventions focused on optimal prescribing, including educational and psychosocial approaches. These will include recent results from projects in the Netherlands and Australia.

David Conn (Canada)
Sytse Zuidema (the Netherlands)
Juanita Westbury (Australia)

Symposia 7
15:15 - 16:45, Convention Hall II

Sleep Disorders

Adam Spira - Does Disturbed Sleep Promote Alzheimer's Disease Pathology?
Naoko (Nana) Tachibana - Transitional State from Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder to Dementia with Lewy Bodies - A Challenge to Sleep Medicine and Psychogeriatrics
Dieter Kunz - Melatonin as Treatment Option in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Katharina Wulff - The Role of Photoreception and Light Intervention for Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disturbances in the Elderly

Symposia 8
15:15 - 16:45, Room 1

Psychogeriatric SOS: A New e-health Clinician-to-Clinician Model for Rural, Remote and Under-Resourced Populations

David Burke - How Do You Translate Inner-City Psychogeriatric Services to Rural and Remote Areas?
Jacqueline Huber - Clinician Confidence and Competence: Supporting Rural and Remote Clinicians with a Virtual Team
Ms Claudia Woolf - How Did We Do? Clinician Satisfaction with a New e-health Model
Dr Louisa Norrie - Where to Next? Future Directions in Clinician-to-Clinician e-health

Free Communication Session 3
15:15 - 16:45, Room 2

BPSD

Carmelle Peisah - Translational Research for Quality Use of Medications in Dementia: the Qum-D Tool and Emergency Sedation Guidelines
Serge Gauthier - Neuropsychiatric Prodrome of Alzheimer's Disease: When are Diagnostic Biomarkers Indicated?
Tiffany Jessop - A Deprescribing Intervention to Reduce the Inappopriate Use of Antipcyhotics to Manage BPSD in Residential Aged Care: The Halt Project
Janet Mitchell - Existing Socio-Professional Relationships to Improve Dementia
Judith Huis in het Veld - Online Focus Groups to Explore Family Caregivers’ Self-Management of Challenging Behavior in their Relatives with Dementia

IPA Member Forum
15:15 - 16:45, Room 3

Share Interest Forum: Young Onset Dementia (YOD)
Towards Recommendations on Terminology and Research Priorities

The IPA Shared Interest Forum (SIF) on Young Onset Dementia (YOD) published a special issue of International Psychogeriatrics in December 2014, with more than 10 papers regarding research on YOD. The SIF now faces new challenges. As was argued in the editorial of the special issue, there is a need for consensus on terminology and recommendations for research priorities. In this symposium new research-data will be presented from Australia, Norway and the Netherlands. The presentation will address psychotropic drug use, needs of children, caregiver issues, risk factors and head trauma.

Aud Johannessen (Norway): Adult Children of Parents with Young-Onset Dementia Narrate the Experiences of their Youth Through Metaphors
Joany Millenaar (the Netherlands): Care Needs and Experiences with the Use of Services of People with Young Onset Dementia and their Caregivers
Ans Mulders (the Netherlands): Prevalence and Correlates of Psychotropic Drug Use in Dutch Nursing Home Patients with Young Onset Dementia
Adrienne Withall (Australia): Head Knocks and Hard Times: Is there a Link Between Head Injury and Young Onset Dementia?