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International Psychogeriatric Association
The International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA), founded in 1982, is a unique and diverse professional healthcare community promoting better geriatric mental health – across disciplines, countries, and geriatric issues. Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Nurses, Primary Care Physicians, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Scientists, and many other healthcare professionals come to the IPA community from all over the globe to discuss, learn, share, and research information about behavioral and biological aspects of geriatric mental health. IPA promotes research and education, facilitates an international exchange of ideas on Psychogeriatric issues, and fosters cross-cultural understanding of the latest developments in the field.
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Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (JPS)
Currently, the world is looking to geriatric psychiatry for knowledge with much more hope. It is most urgent that persons involved in geriatric psychiatry should be fully prepared for meeting these demands.
Dementia is a most urgent and major area of geriatric psychiatry. Other matters covered by geriatric psychiatry are mental disorders accompanied by physical disease, melancholy, neurosis and delusion, etc. identified in senescent persons. These types of mental disorders developed in senescent persons are often entangled with social psychological factors, physical causes, and the like. In order to understand and treat these conditions, it is necessary to take a geriatric psychiatry view, not just an extended general psychiatry view, of them.
Thus, based on these situations, the Japan Geriatric Psychiatric Study Society was founded in 1986 so that persons interested in this field could get together to make a presentation of the results of daily study and exchange information with each other. This Society reorganized itself into the Japan Psychogeriatric Society in 1988.
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Japanese Society of Dementia Research (JSDR)
Formed in 1982, the Japanese Society of Dementia Research (JSDR) was founded by psychiatrists, neurologists, geriatricians and researchers in basic medical science with a common interest in dementia research. Since its inception, JSDR has grown substantially and currently has 920 members. The Society provides a balanced array of support for its members such as basic and clinical research of dementia, well planned annual meetings, and their official journal DEMENTIA JAPAN. JSDR is currently preparing to launch a special society board certification for service to dementia.
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