The Annual Meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP 2024) is a conference that covers topics such as:
- Age-related changes in pharmacologic response, vulnerability to adverse outcomes
- Disease management interventions: depression, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar, sleep disorders, substance abuse and PTSD
- Complementary treatment approaches and psychosocial interventions
- Psychiatric manifestations of medical diseases
- Ethical issues such as advance directives and end-of-life care
- Strategies to enhance successful living in the face of medical comorbidity
- Psychosocial and care needs of special populations
- Models for the treatment of the elderly
- Advances in basic science research in relation to aging
- Late-life mental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases
- Response to Trauma/Disaster in the context of aging
- Practice management issues such as: getting started in practice, electronic medical records, reimbursement and coding
- Family and caregiver issues related to aging and complex medical problems
- Resources and initiatives to assist academic training directors maintain