With sponsorship from ILKO, the first Turkish Nursing Home Doctors’ Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Training Course was held / 02-04 November 2012
From November 02-04, 2012, the Turkish Nursing Home Doctors’ Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Training Course, sponsored by ILKO, was held at the Şanlıurfa Dedeman Hotel under the leadership of Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Cankurtaran who works at the Hacettepe Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Unit. During the course a range of subjects were discussed, including current issues related to dementia in nursing homes and proposals for solutions, nutritional support for the patients with dementia, case studies on the use of antipsychotics in nursing homes and case studies on the use of antipsychotics in prisons.