prof.dr. AM (Anne Margriet) Pot

Biography

Anne Margriet Pot is Endowed Professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Strategic Advisor Long-Term Care at the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate, Ministry of Health, the Netherlands. She is also Extraordinary Professor at Optentia, North-West University, South Africa, Immediate Past President of the International Psychogeriatric Association, and Co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Long-Term Care for Older Persons. In addition, she serves as an advisor to the World Health Organization.

For more than 35 years, she has dedicated her work to improving the mental health, quality of life and care of older people through research, education, clinical practice, policy and regulation. Her research spans the measurement and monitoring of quality of care and quality of life, the development and evaluation of innovative interventions to support older people and their caregivers, and long-term care policy. Her work has a strong international orientation, including research related to her work at the World Health Organization.

Her current research at ESHPM focuses on the development of reflexive regulation in long-term care, with particular attention to person-centred care and the use of narrative approaches. This research is supported by a €1.35 million grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Anne Margriet Pot has authored and co-authored more than 250 scientific and professional publications in the fields of mental health of older people, dementia and long-term care. A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of her scientific publications is available through her ORCID profile.