Abstracts of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society

Venue: Osaka International Convention centor (Osaka) Date: 15–16 October 2007 President: Professor Yoshio Morita (Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine) The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (JPS) was held in Osaka under Professor Yoshio Morita (Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine). This Meeting was co‐organized with the 13th Congress of International Psychogeriatric Association chaired by Professor Masatoshi Takeda (Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine) and the 26th Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dementia Research chaired by Professor Akira Honma (Depaartment of Dementia Intervention, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology). The total program included eight plenary lectures, 38 symposia and approximately 700 oral and poster presentations. The JPS program had two symposia and four educational lectures. More than 2000 participants had the opportunity to discuss multidisciplinary and comprehensive strategies for the mental health of the elderly. Mutual understanding of the recent situation of dementia care all over the world and the progress of dementia research was facilitated by this meeting. In the JPS program, Symposium I entitled “Behavioral and psychological symptoms with dementia and its related problems”, was chaired by Professor Takashi Asada (Tsukuba University), and serious problems induced by demented patients were reviewed and discussed. Symposium II entitled “Mood disorder in late life”, was chaired by Professor Kiyoshi Maeda (Kobe University), and its causes and risk factors were reviewed and points of pharmacotherapy to notice were discussed. The next annual meeting will be held on 27–28 June 2008 in Kobe and will be chaired by Professor Kiyoshi Maeda (Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University).