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The article focuses on the activities of the Council on Aging and its committees. It notes that the council and its components serve as source of expertise in geriatric psychiatry for general psychiatrists and provide general information on geropsychiatric issues to nonpsychiatric physicians and other health professionals. Furthermore, they also serve as the chief policy body for geropsychiatric matters within American Psychiatry Association (APA). Prescribing of antipsychotic medications for Alzheimer's disease patients, development of a draft position statement on integrated care of the elderly and council self-assessment and discussion of long-term goals are some of the issues discussed by the council during the APA September Components Meeting on September 6, 2008.

The article discusses the activities of the committees of the Council on Aging. It is composed of the council and the committees such as the Committee on Ethnic Minority Elderly, the Committee on Access and Effectiveness of Psychiatric Services for the Elderly, and the Committee on Long-Term Care and Treatment for the Elderly. The missions of the council and its components are to serve as a source of expertise in geriatric psychiatry for general psychiatrists and to provide general information on geropsychiatric issues. It remains to be the main source for American Psychiatric Association, specifically the Department of Government Relations.