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Anne Margriet Pot is clinical psychologist and professor of Geropsychology at the Department of Clinical psychology of the VU Univeristy in Amsterdam. She is also head of the Program on Aging and a member of the management team of the Netherlands Institute on Mental Health and Addiction in Utrecht and is clinician at Parnassia, a mental health care institute. She is registered as a clinical psychologist and health care psychologist. She is board member of the international Psychogeriatric Association and the former chair of the Dutch Association on Psychology and Aging. She is an advisor of the board of the Netherlands Institute of Psychologists (NIP), a member of the Dutch Association of Psychogeriatrics, and the Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Pot has been active in the field of Psychology and Aging for about 25 years, not only in scientific research, but also in academic education and clinical practice. Her interest is the psychological care for frail older people and their family caregivers. Her research started with her doctoral thesis on the psychological distress of family caregivers of people with dementia. Dr. Pot’s current monitoring and intervention projects are focused on family care and professional care in dementia, psychiatric disorders and quality of life in nursing home residents and the mental health care for older adults. She has been tutor and supervisor of nursing home physicians, social geriatricians and psychologists working in the care for older people and has been practising as a clinical psychologist in nursing homes and an outpatient psychiatric hospital.
Dr. Pot has published widely in her areas of interest in scientific and professional journals and she has served as first editor of the Handbook on Geropsychology (In Dutch: Handboek ouderenpsychologie). She actively stimulates vocational training for geropsychologists in the Netherlands and is involved in organizing national and international national congresses on Mental health and Aging.
When not working she plays the flute.