2024 FPOP Conference
- Older people
About
The theme for the Faculty of the Psychology of Older People 2024 online annual conference, hosted by the FPOP National Committee, will be 'A taste of FPOP: Join the feast'.
A wide group of psychologists and many other colleagues interested in and working with older people and ageing, have under the umbrella of PSIGE and now FPOP, created a wide range of very useful resources for those of us working in the field.
This work has resulted in many CPD events and guidance written up in the BPS purple booklets, e.g., alternatives to antipsychotic medication, working in inpatient settings, early onset dementia, psychosocial intervention in dementia, psychological interventions for neurodegenerative conditions, etc.
Work continues to be undertaken and the national committee wants to showcase the current pieces of work that are being undertaken by FPOP members as part of the officially 'commissioned' pieces of work, areas often identified by our members.
So, the conference will not call for papers, but instead the workstream members are being asked to present their work to date. That could be completed pieces of work, like the Behaviours that Challenge workstream; ongoing work, e.g., reviewing and updating the inpatient guidance, but also new pieces of work, like autism and older people.
The transformational agenda in England has also created a lot of output, which will be shared. Apart from the more clinically relevant topics, we will also share updates on competencies related to trainees and others.
So, we would like to invite you to submit posters of the work you are undertaking and we are planning a dedicated session in the conference where authors of posters have an opportunity to present their work.
And of course, the conference will have the usual AGM, and the Una Holden and Bill Downes awards. Please begin to think about who you would like to nominate.
Download the conference programme
Download the conference abstracts
Please note: the conference programme is subject to change.
- The national FPOP conference committee:
- Anna Buckell
- Anna Crabtree
- Kathryn Dykes
- Carolien Lamers
- Tash Lord
- Angela Smith
- Rebecca Poz
If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected].
Registration
Registration must be made online.
Please note: Registration will close at 10am (GMT) on Monday 16 September 2024.
Cost
Please note: all rates listed are inclusive of VAT at 20%.
| Delegate category | Registration fee |
| BPS Member | £102 |
| FPOP Member | £72 |
| Student | £36 |
| FPOP E-subscriber | £96 Please enter FPOPESUBS at checkout. |
| Non-BPS Member | £144 |
How to register
Returning customers (members and non-members)
In order to register for the event you will need to sign in using your BPS website login details.
We have implemented a new Membership Database and if you haven't received your pre-registration email you will need to request your unique registration link.
Once you have the link, you can complete your registration on our portal.
Once you have registered on the portal please use your username and password to log in and register for the event.
If you have forgotten your login details, you can reset your username or password.
New customers (members and non-members)
If you are not a returning customer, you will need to create your BPS account on the portal. The process is straightforward and takes just a few minutes.
Once you have registered on the portal please use your username and password to log in and register for the event.
Submissions
The theme for the Faculty of the Psychology of Older People 2024 online annual conference, hosted by the National Committee, will be 'A taste of FPOP: Join the feast'.
The national committee is organizing the conference this year and will be showcasing the work that FPOP members have been undertaking as part of the programme of FPOP workstreams. Therefore, there will not be a call for papers this year. However, we would love to hear about all the work going on and invite you to submit a poster to share this in a timetabled session within the conference programme.
Please have a think and consider sharing the work that you are doing, e.g., your creative ideas, how you have addressed challenges, the way you have looked after yourself and colleagues, innovative clinical practice with service user and carers.
We welcome submissions from assistant, trainee and qualified psychologists, PhD students, Experts by Experience.
Key submission dates
- 29 February 2024: Online Submission system Opens
- 31 May 2024: Deadline for Submissions
- 2 July 2024: Notification of Submission Outcomes
Authors are strongly advised to register on the online submission system and begin preparing their submissions well in advance of the following deadlines.
If you wish to submit more than one abstract, please complete individual submissions for each.
How to submit
Please ensure you read the submission guidelines below before submitting, including the reviewer guidelines. These allow you to see how your submissions will be reviewed.
Access the Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be made via the online application portal.
Please note: In order to submit your poster, if you have not done so in the past, you will need to register an account on the submission portal but this is separate to the conference registration.
If you have any queries please contact us at [email protected].
Speakers
Professor Emeritus Dawn Brooker PhD MBE
Professor Emeritus Dawn Brooker PhD MBE is internationally recognised for scholarship in practice development of person-centred dementia care and has long established working relationships with practitioners and scholars worldwide. Before becoming an Emeritus Professor in 2022, she was the founding Director of the Association for Dementia Studies at University of Worcester. She enjoys working at the interface between the experience of those living with dementia, those developing care practice and those undertaking research to ensure that there is real knowledge transfer and translation between these different world-views. Originally qualified as a clinical psychologist, Professor Brooker has many years' hands on experience in health and social care. She was made an MBE for services to those affected by dementia in the Queen's New Year's Honours in 2021. Alongside Keith Oliver, she is co-editor of the Reconsidering Dementia Book Series editor for Open University Press.
Reconsidering Dementia for the 21 st Century
The late Professor Tom Kitwood's seminal text Dementia Reconsidered – The Person Comes First was first published by Open University Press in 1997. Arguably, this book laid the foundations for modern dementia care and changed the aspiration towards person-centred care. Dawn Brooker undertook a fully updated 2 nd Edition Dementia Reconsidered Revisited- the Person still comes First published in 2019. Since then, Dawn has teamed up with her colleague Keith Oliver to edit a whole series of books on Dementia Care and Support called the Reconsidering Dementia Series. Keith is a well-known dementia advocate and author who is living with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Books in the Reconsidering Dementia Series challenge and engage readers to think deeply about the topic. They draw on theoretical understandings, contemporary research and experience to critically reflect on their topic in depth. As well as the scholarly text, all books have a "So what?" focus that unpacks what this means for people living with dementia, their families, people working in dementia care, policy makers, professionals, community activists and so on. Since 2022, six titles have been published with a further four in the pipeline. Many of the books are authored or edited by clinical psychologists. In this keynote address Dawn will use the experience of the book series to reflect on the contribution of psychology to dementia care and support in the 21 st century.
Dr. Gemma Carney
Dr. Gemma Carney is a social and cultural gerontologist who works across disciplines to explore human ageing. Most often Gemma works on collaborative projects aimed at developing innovative approaches to understanding ageing from inter and transdisciplinary perspectives. For instance, Dementia in the Minds of Characters and Readers which used fictional characters to explore the internal lives of people with dementia (AHRC) and the Lively Project which used material culture to examine the meaning of living a long life.
Gemma's 2020 book Critical Questions for Ageing Societies (co-authored with psychologist, Paul Nash) was nominated for a Richard Kalish Award for Innovation in Research on Ageing in 2021. She is based at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast where she leads the ageing theme for the Centre for Inclusion, Transformation and Equality and a strategic partnership with Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California.
Critical questions for psychologists working with older people
Posing critical questions, Gemma Carney issues an invitation to examine how we use age when working with older people. Drawing on the gold standard of social science research – the longitudinal studies of ageing - she highlights gaps between myths and evidence around ageing. For example, the myth that retirement is good for you, or that planning for an ageing population is primarily about older people.
While popular culture officially dismisses age as 'only a number,' many aspects of our personal lives are dictated by chrononormativity – the expectation that certain behaviours and life events should take place before or after a certain age. At societal level, public institutions such as school and the work place are age-segregated. In short, age segregation, ageism and the acquisition of ageist attitudes and values shape our lives (Carney and Nash, 2020).
Delegates will be encouraged to take time to consider critical questions for psychologists working with older people such how we count experience as a valuable personal resource and how we reconcile ageing at the population level with the personal lives of older adults.
Dr Amanda Thompsell
Dr Thompsell was appointed in 2020 as the National Specialty Advisor in the Older Adults' Mental Health NHSE. She initially worked as a GP Principal before retraining in psychiatry and becoming an old age psychiatrist. She was a consultant in a multidisciplinary team supporting care homes with nursing needs, after which she worked in an old age liaison service in an acute hospital before working in specialist care She currently works in a community team for older people with serious mental illnesses.
Dr Thompsell previously led the 'Improving care in dementia' work stream for London Dementia Strategic Clinical leadership group. She was involved with the implementation of 'Better end of life care' in care homes and was the clinical lead for the dementia work stream of the Modernisation Initiative to improve the end-of-life care specifically for those with living with dementia. She was involved in research on the implementation of Namaste care. In 2020, she completed four years as chair of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and during this time various reports on key topics were published.
Dr Thompsell is currently also a Medical member of First Tier Tribunal service and is a non- executive director on Target Health care REIT.
Making the most of the opportunities available to benefit older adults
Older adults' mental health is increasingly realised as being important and this presentation is about how we make the most of this interest. This presentation will discuss the context (mentioning useful reports) and highlight some of important policy developments published by NHSE that affect older adults' mental health and dementia services. It will include a focus on how NHSE is looking into implementing its new approach for allocating resources based on "Mental Health and Neurodevelopmental Resource Groups (MHNRGs)" along with the use of SNOMED codes and outcome measures. I will outline how we might use the opportunities these changes bring by developing the evidence base for older adults. Some useful resources will be shared that can be accessed for free.