Meeting guidelines are established by the Meetings Committee for standards and procedures of organizing IPA meetings. The meeting offers a select group of scientists, clinicians, government representatives, and others a chance to explore current thinking on the entire spectrum of AD symptomatology and associated assessment methods. In June, IPA convenes a workshop in the Netherlands attended by more than 250 participants. A task force on behavioral disturbances of dementia is created and directed to develop an educational plan as one of its activities. Guidelines on planning joint meetings with other organizations are drafted.
Winners are from USA and Italy.
IPA publishes its first member directory distributed to members at no cost. IPA launches Latin America and Southeast Asia Initiatives which works to identify and respond to the psychogeriatric needs of those regions. Together with the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, IPA cosponsors a workshop in Cancun, Mexico in February. The Board of Directors approves an 8-year contract for the journal, International Psychogeriatrics, with Springer Publishing Company, to run until December 31, 2003. The Board of Directors approves the formation of a task force on HIV and AIDS in the elderly.