Monday February 11th |
Professor Thierry Moulin,
Service de Neurologie Besançon Cedex, France
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The RUN-Stroke Experiment: Teleneurology In the Implementation of an Integrative Stroke Programme |
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Monday February 18th |
Dr Anna Howe,
Consultant gerontologist to Aged Care Branch, DHS, Victoria
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Ageing and cultural diversity in Victoria: Implications for research. |
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Monday March 3rd |
Kathryn Nicholson,
Integrated Health Systems International Pty Ltd
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Dementia with Lewy bodies: Evaluating carers' experiences |
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Monday March 10th |
Professor George Vaillant,
Dept of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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What predicts a happy retirement? |
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Monday March 17th |
Freda Vrantsidis,
Preventative and Public Health Division, NARI
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Validation of the Rowland Universal Dementia Scale (RUDAS) in a multi-cultural cohort of older person. |
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Monday March 31st |
Klaudia Vainshtein
Senior Project Officer Education and Training Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing
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Reaching out to CALD elderly: practical communication strategies |
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Monday April 21st |
Professor Edmund Chiu
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
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The Cinderella tale of Huntington’s disease – a research, clinical and service paradigm. |
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Monday May 5th |
Professor David Ames, Director, NARI and Dr Kathryn Ellis, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
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The Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship study of Ageing (AIBL) |
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Monday May 19th |
Xiao Jing Yang
Preventative and Public Health Division, NARI |
The proportion of balance impairment and associated risk factors in a sample of community ambulant older people who reported concerns about balance and confidence |
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Monday June 2nd |
Loretta Quinn, PhD student, Biomedical Division, NARI
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CD project: Catching Dust in Mid-air: song writing with carers of people with dementia |
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Monday June 16th |
Ralph Hampson
School of Social Work, University of Melbourne
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The built environment in residential aged care. |
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Monday June 30th |
Dr Cassandra Czoeke, department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.
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Lipids and cognition. |
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Monday July14th |
Prof Yaakov Stern, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Columbia University)
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Imaging Cognitive reserve. |
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Monday July 21st |
Dr Carolyn Arnold, Director Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre.
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Pain in women: how gender affects pain presentation and treatment. |
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Monday August 11th |
Dr Fary Khan Rehabilitation Physician, RMH
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Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis at RMH Royal Park campus. |
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Wednesday 13th August
Special Seminar |
Dr Ng Tze Pin, Associate Professorial Fellow, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Director, Gerontological Research Programme
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Cognition and Mood of Elderly in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies: Research on Primary Prevention and Care |
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Monday August 25th |
Professor Sulaiman Al-Shammari, School of Medicine, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
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Health appraisal of the Saudi elderly. |
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| Monday September 1st |
Melissa Russell, PhD (current) NARI and the Department of MEGA Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
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A randomised controlled trial of a multifactorial falls prevention intervention for older fallers presenting to an ED and other sub-studies. |
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Monday September 8th |
Simone Mangelsdorf, D.Psych candidate Melbourne Univ, RA, NARI, Gihan de Mel, RA, NARI. |
The Older Australian Twins Study: Gene-environment interactions in healthy brain ageing and age-related neurodegeneration using the extended twin pair methodology
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Monday September 22nd |
Associate Professor Barry Golding, Faculty of Education, University of Ballarat. |
New findings about older men’s learning and wellbeing from men’s sheds. |
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Monday October 6th |
Glynda Kinsella, PhD, Associate Professor in Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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Early cognitive intervention for mild cognitive
impairment: does it work? |
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Monday October 20th |
Colleen Doyle, PhD MAPS
Senior Research Fellow, NARI
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The effect of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on mental health |
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| Monday October 27th |
Joanne Ryan, PhD project in Melbourne and Montpellier (France). Office for Gender and Health, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne. |
The influence of hormonal factors on later life neuro-psychiatric disorders |
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Monday November 10th |
Robert Webb, Freda Vrantsidis |
Getting Grounded Gracefully©: Effectiveness and acceptability of Feldenkrais in improving balance related outcomes for older people: a randomised trial
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Monday November 17th |
Professor Stephen Gibson, Deputy Director, NARI |
Pain and cognition in older people |
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Tuesday November 18th |
Professor Laura Mosqueda MD, Director of Geriatrics, Professor of Family Medicine, Ronald W. Reagan Endowed Chair in Geriatrics, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine |
Elder Mistreatment |
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Monday December 1st |
Lynette Joubert, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne
Chris Graven, PhD candidate, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne.
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Carers contributing to better outcomes for the elderly: the evidence for the significance of the dyad relationship
From Rehabilitation to Recovery: a focus on consumer and carer goals one year after stroke. |
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Monday December 15th |
Nicola Lautenschlager,
Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age, Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age
University of Melbourne,
Director St. Vincent's Aged Psychiatry Service |
The concept of dementia in the 21 century: time for shifting paradigms? |
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