Abstract

for private long-term care insurance to develop and recommend policy standards aimed at eliminating discrimination in long-term care insunance against individuals requiring treatment for mental illness. Current insurance standards governing the issue are extremely weak. Although the Work Group on Model Standards for Private LongTerm Care Insurance was approved, funding is still pending. The work group hopes to begin its work in 1992. The Task Force on Models of Practice in Geriatric Psychiatry, Marion Goldstein, M.D., chairperson, has completed its draft report. Council consideration of the draft report is expected in early 1992. In addition, the task force conducted a workshop on comparative models of practice at the APA 1991 annual meeting. The Task Force on the Ethnic Minority Elderly, Kenneth M. Sakauye, M.D., chairperson, completed its report, which was subsequently approved for publication by the Joint Reference Committee and the Board of Trustees. One of the recommendations was that the task force be converted to a permanent committee. That recommendation was approved, and the task force became the Committee on the Ethnic Minority Elderly. The committee will meet beginning in I 992, and it will work closely with APA components, such as the Council on National Affairs,