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Seminar Program: 2008

Seminars are held on Mondays 12:00 – 1:00 pm in the NARI seminar room, Building 9. Visitors please enter Gate 4, Poplar Rd, Parkville (Melways Map 29, Ref: D 10). Limited parking is available in the grounds (please fill in the parking register at the entrance desk in Building 8) or in the public car park (Gate 1). If on public transport, take Tram No 55 or the Upfield line train to Royal Park Station.

Convenor: Dr Bruce Barber   Ph: (03) 8387 2638  E-mail: Bruce Barber

ALL WELCOME

Monday February 11th

Professor Thierry Moulin,
Service de Neurologie Besançon Cedex, France

The RUN-Stroke Experiment: Teleneurology In the Implementation of an Integrative Stroke Programme

Monday February 18th

Dr Anna Howe,
Consultant gerontologist to Aged Care Branch, DHS, Victoria

Ageing and cultural diversity in Victoria:  Implications for research.

Monday March 3rd

Kathryn Nicholson,
Integrated Health Systems International Pty Ltd

Dementia with Lewy bodies: Evaluating carers' experiences

Monday March 10th

Professor George Vaillant,
Dept of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital

What predicts a happy retirement?

Monday March 17th

Freda Vrantsidis,
Preventative and Public Health Division, NARI

Validation of the Rowland Universal Dementia Scale (RUDAS) in a multi-cultural cohort of older person. 

Monday March 31st

Klaudia Vainshtein
Senior Project Officer Education and Training Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing

Reaching out to CALD elderly: practical communication strategies

Monday April 21st

Professor Edmund Chiu
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

The Cinderella tale of Huntington’s disease – a research, clinical and service paradigm.

Monday  May 5th

Professor David Ames, Director, NARI and Dr Kathryn Ellis, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

The Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship study of Ageing (AIBL)

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

Monday  June 2nd

Loretta Quinn, PhD student, Biomedical Division, NARI

CD project: Catching Dust in Mid-air: song writing with carers of people with dementia

Monday  June 16th

Ralph Hampson
School of Social Work, University of Melbourne

The built environment in residential aged care.


 
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