Book Chapters

Hill, K., Vrantsidis, F., & Clemson, L. (2006). Preventing falls - a key to maintaining independence. In H. Mackey & S. Nancarrow (Eds.), Enabling independence - a guide for rehabilitation workers. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publications.

Hill, K., Waterston, J., & Murray, K. (In Press). Vestibular dysfunction and headache: Assessment and management. In P. Selvaratnam, K. Niere, M. Zuluaga & P. Oddy (Eds.), Headaches, bruxism and related conditions: Diagnosis and multidisciplinary approaches to management. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Ritchie C, Ames D, Masters C, Cummings J. 2006. Preface. In: C. Ritchie, D. Ames, C. Masters, J. Cummings (Eds.), Therapeutic Strategies for Dementia, Oxford Clinical Publishing, ISBN 19049258X, pp xiii.

Reports

An Interdisciplinary Expert Consensus Statement on Assessment of Pain in Older Persons.  Report to the International Association for the Study of Pain (2006).

Physical Therapies, in Pain in Residential Care Facilities: Management Strategies. The Australian Pain Society, ISBN: 0-9757989-0-1.

Black, K., Nankerivs, J. & Giummarra, M. (2006). Improving the environment for older people in Health Services. Melbourne, Report for the Department of Human Services.

Dow, B., Black, K., Sims, J., Ratnayeke, A., Scott, P., Wise, K. & Hill, K. (2006). Rural carers online: A feasibility study: Report to Beyondblue. The final report is available here ...

Dow, B., Haralambous, B., Bremner, F., & Fearn, M. (2006). Statewide report of 2005 Survey Findings: Benchmarking Person-centred Care Survey. Melbourne: Report to the Department of Human Services (Victoria). Further information and the final report is available here.

Dow, B., Haralambous, B., Bremner, F., & Fearn, M. (2006). What is person-centred health care? A literature review. Melbourne: Report to the Department of Human Services (Victoria). Further information and a copy of the literature review is available here.
 
Dow, B., Hunt, S., Haralambous, B., & Hill, K.  (2006). Volunteering in Banyule Nillumbik.  Report to the Banyule Community Health Service (BCHS) Emotional Health & Well-being Focus Group (EH&WFG).

Haralambous B, Dow B, Tarquinio S. 2006. Evaluation of the Villa Maria Community Services Partners and Pathways model of service delivery. Progress Report (Phase 1), June 2006. Report to Villa Maria, Melbourne.

Hill K.  (2006).  Review of West Gippsland Hospital Emergency Department Falls Risk Screening, Assessment and Action Tool (EDFRSAAT).  Report to: Central West Gippsland Falls Prevention Project Management Group.

Sims, J., Hill, K., Hun,t S., Haralambous, B., Brown, A., Engel, L., Huang, N., Kerse, N., & Ory, M. (2006). National physical activity recommendations for older Australians: Discussion document. Report to the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. 

Refereed Journal articles

Ames D. 2006. The 2005 International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics. International Psychogeriatrics, 18: 1-2.e.

Ames D. 2006. Registration of clinical trials submitted for publication in International Psychogeriatrics. International Psychogeriatrics, 18: 191-193.e.

Ames D. 2006. Four more years! International Psychogeriatrics, 18: 383-392.e.

Ames D. 2006. International Psychogeriatrics to increase publication frequency to six issues per annum in 2007. International Psychogeriatrics, 18: 575-576.e.

Ames D. 2006. International Psychogeriatrics – your peer-reviewed journal. IPA Bulletin, 23: 6-7.

Ames D. 2006. Treatment of AD: results of recent studies. Dementia Digest 9: 8-9.

Ames D. 2006. International Psychogeriatrics – bigger, better, more accessible, and a major benefit of IPA membership. IPA Bulletin, 23: 6.

Ames D, Petersen R, Knopman D, Visser PJ, Brodaty H, Gauthier S. 2006.  For debate: is mild cognitive impairment a clinically useful concept?  International Psychogeriatrics, 18: 393-414r.

Brodaty H, Woodward, M, Boundy K, Barnes N, Allen G, for the NATURE Investigators* 2006. A naturalistic study of galantamine for Alzheimer’s disease. CNS Drugs, 20: 935-943.*The NATURE Investigators includes D. AMES.

Cole LJ, Farrell MJ, Duff EP, Barber B, Egan GF, Gibson SJ. 2006. Pain sensitivity and fMRI pain-related brain activity in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain, 129: 2957-65.

Dow, B., Black, K., Bremner, F., & Fearn, M. (In Press). A comparison of a hospital-based and two home-based rehabilitation programmes. Disability and Rehabilitation.

El Haber, N., Hill, K., Cassano, A., Cui, J., MacInnis, R., Hopper, J., & Wark, J. (2006). Genetic and environmental influences on variation in balance performance in female twin-pairs 21-82 years old. American Journal of Epidemiology, 164(3): 246-56 .

Farrell, M., Chang, W., & Gibson, S. (In Press). Age difference in temporal summation of experimental pain. Journal of Pain.

Farrell, M., Egan, G., Zamarripa, F., Shade, R., Blair-West, J., Fox, P., & Denton, D. (2006) Unique, common and interacting cortical correlates of thirst and pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:2416-21

Gibson, S. (2006). Pain over the adult life span: what can we learn? Pain Clinical Updates 14:1-4

Gray, L., Black, K., Smith, R., & Dorevitch, M. (In Press). The supply of inpatient geriatric medical services in Australia. Internal Medicine Journal.

Haines, T., Hill, K., Bennell, K., & Osborne, R. (2006). Hip protector use amongst older hospital inpatients: Compliance and functional consequences. Age and Ageing.  35: 520-3.

Haines, T., Hill, K., Bennell, K., & Osborne, R. (2006) Patient education to prevent falls in subacute care. Clinical Rehabilitation. 20: 970-79.

Haines, T., Hill, K., Bennell, K., & Osborne, R.  (2006). Recurrent events can be counted in evaluations of predictive accuracy. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 59: 1155-61.

Haines, T., Hill, K., Walsh, W., & Osborne, R. (In Press). Design-related bias in hospital falls risk screening tool predictive accuracy evaluations:  Systematic review and meta-analysis.   Journal of Gerontology

Hill, K., & Day L. (2006). Tai Chi – Can This Gentle Form of Exercise Achieve Health Benefits for Older People? Health Issues (Spring): 29-32.

Hill, K., Smith, R., Fearn, M., Rydberg, M., & Oliphant, R.  (In Press). Physical and psychological outcomes of a supported physical activity program for older carers.  Journal of Ageing and Physical Activity.

Joubert, J., Cumming, T., & McLean, A. (In Press). Diversity of risk factors for stroke: the putative roles and mechanisms of depression and air pollution. Journal of the Neurological Sciences.

Leong, I., Chong, M., & Gibson, S. (2006). The use of a behavioural rating scale in nursing home residents with cognitive impairment. Age and Ageing 35: 252-256.

Leong, I., Farrell, M., Helme, R., & Gibson, S. (In Press). The relationship between medical comorbidity and self-rated pain, mood disturbance and function in older people with chronic pain.  Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.

Mackintosh, S., Hill, K., Dodd, K., Goldie, P., & Culham, E. (2006). Balance score and a history of falls in hospital predict recurrent falls in the six months following stroke rehabilitation.  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 87: 1583-89.

McAllen, R., Farrell, M., Johnson, J., Trevaks, D., Cole, L., McKinley, M., Jackson, G., Denton, D., & Egan, G. (2006). Human medullary responses to cooling and rewarming the skin: A functional MRI study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 809-813.

McLean, A., & Allsop I. (2005-2006). Consumer participation in health and medical research – the perspective of the National Ageing Research Institute. The Australian Health Consumer 1:12-14.

Menz, H., & Hill, K. (In Press). Podiatry involvement in multidsciplinary falls prevention clinics in Australia. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association.

Maurer K, Cummings J, McKeith I, Ames D, Burns A. 2006.  Has treatment for Alzheimer’s disease changed over the last 100 years?  Lancet, 358: 1619-1621r.

Murray, K., Hill, K., Waterston, J., & Phillips, B. (In Press). Comparative effectiveness of vestibular rehabilitation in the treatment of individuals with or without otolith dysfunction.  Physical Therapy

Ritchie C, Chiu E, Harrigan S, MacFarlane S, Mastwyk M, Halliday G, Hustig H, Hall K, Hassett A, O’Connor D, Opie J, Nagalingam V, Snowdon J, Ames D. 2006.  A comparison of the efficacy and safety of olanzapine and risperidone in the treatment of elderly patients with schizophrenia: an open study of six months duration.  International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21: 171-179.

Russell, M., Hill, K., Blackberry, I., Day, L., & Dharmage, S. (2006). Falls risk and functional decline in older fallers discharged directly from Emergency Departments. Journal of Gerontology, 61: 1090-95.

Scherer, S., Jennings, C., Rule, J., Smeaton, M., Farrell, M., Garratt, S., Flicker, L., Davis, I., & Wark, J. (In Press). Promoting evidence-based best practices for hip fracture prevention in residential aged care. Australasian Journal on Ageing.

Scherer, S., Rule, J., Browning, M., Darzins, P., & Gibson, S. (In Press). Correlations between insomnia, pain and depression in nursing home residents. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Sims J, Hill K, Davidson S, Gunn J, Huang N.  (2006). Exploring the feasibility of a community-based strength training program for older people with depressive symptoms and its impact on depressive symptoms.  BMC Geriatrics, 6:18.

Street, A., Hill, K., Sussex, B., Warner, M., & Scully, M. F. (2006). Haemophilia and ageing. Haemophilia, 12(Suppl. 3), 8-12.

Yatrubetskaya O, Kelleher R, Fisher C, Ames D. 2006. The multidisciplinary role of allied health professionals in old age psychiatry: can this be taught to medical students? IPA Bulletin, 23: 13-16.

Conference Presentations and Abstracts

Adams, R., & Hill, K. (2006) ED falls risk screening, assessment and action tool. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Barber, B. (2006). The effect of music on the cognitive and functional status of people with Alzheimer's disease. Seminar of the Special Commission for Music Therapy, Music in Medicine and Music in Special Education. ISME Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July.

Barber, B., Johnson, P., & Gibson, S. (2006). Alzheimer’s disease patients and controls do not differ in their psychophysical responses to a fixed intensity painful stimulus.  Australian Pain Society 26th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, April.

Cole, L., Gibson, S., Farrell, M., & Egan, G. (2006). Age-related differences in fMRI pain-evoked brain activity. 12th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Florence, June.

Day, L., Segal, L., Jolley, D., Flicker, L., Hill, K., & Ciccutini, F.  (2006). Cluster versus individual randomisation in an exercise and disability trial in the retirement village setting. 2nd International Seminar of Injury Research Methods, South Africa.

Dow, B., Black, K., Sims, J., Scott, P., Ratnayeke, A., Wise, K., et al. (2006). Opening doors: a feasibility study on the use of computers to promote mental health amongst rural carers. 16th National Health Promotion Conference, Alice Springs.

Dow, B., Haralambous, B., Bremner, F., & Fearn, M. (2006). Bench-marking person-centred health care in Victoria. Australian Association of Gerontology Conference, Sydney, November. 

Elhaber N, Erbas B, Hill K, Wark J. (2006). The relationship between age and measures of balance, strength and gait- analysis using non-linear modelling. 3rd IOF Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Osteoporosis and 16th Annual Meeting of the Australian & New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society, Port Douglas, October. 

Farrell, M., Egan, G., & Cole, L. (2006). The representation of pain in the brain.  Australian Pain Society 26th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, April.

Farrell, M., Zamarripa, F., McAllen, R., Johnson, J., Fox, P., & Egan, G. (2006). Thermal comfort: a percept based analysis of brain activity associated with whole body warming and cooling. 12th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Florence, June.

Farrell MJ. The physiology of pain, practical analgesia for the anaesthetist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Annual Refresher Course, November 2006.

Fearn, M., Hill, K., Street, A., Walsh, C., Mudge, L., Walsh, M., McCarthy, P., & Williams, S. (2006). Falls risk and response to exercise for people with haemophilia. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Galvin, P., Hill, K., Giummarra, M., Livingston, J., & Blackberry, I. (2006). Compliance with preventive recommendations among older people following their recent falls. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Gibson SJ. Age differences in the neurophysiology of nociception.  University of Florida, Comprehensive Pain Research Center, November, 2006.

Gibson SJ. Psychosocial issues in the older person with pain. University of Florida, Comprehensive Pain Research Center, November, 2006.

Gibson SJ. The validity and reliability of the Doloplus pain assessment tool in an Australian sample of demented older adults. International Doloplus Meeting, Paris, France, December 2006.

Gibson SJ. Pain perception and fMRI pain-related brain activation in Alzheimer’s disease. Pain in Dementia: New Challenges, 2nd Scientific Meeting, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2006

Gibson SJ. Multidisciplinary pain management clinics for older adults. Pain in Dementia: New Challenges, 2nd Scientific Meeting, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2006.

Gibson SJ. Pain in older persons. Jocelyn Wales Distinguished Lecture, James Cook University, Townsville, September 2006.

Gibson SJ, Ball N. Relative influence of uncertainty and harm components of anxiety on pain perception. Australian Pain Society 27th Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, April 2006.

Giummarra MJ, Georgiou-Karistianis N, Gibson SJ, Chou M, Bradshaw JL. The menacing phantom: what triggers phantom limb pain and why? The Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, Queenstown, New Zealand, August 2006.

Giummarra, M., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M., Gibson, S., Chou, M., Stone, K., & Bradshaw, J. (2006). Embodied pain: The interaction between prosthesis use and phantom pain. 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics, Australian National Member Society, Fremantle, October.

Gook, S., Jones, T., & Gibson, S. (2006). The factor structure of the patient pain knowledge questionnaire.  Australian Pain Society 26th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, April.

Haines, T., Hill, K., Walsh, W., & Osborne, R. (2006) Design-related bias in hospital falls risk screening tool predictive accuracy evaluations: Systematic review and meta-analysis. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Haines, T., Hill, K., Bennell, K., & Osborne, R. (2006) Patient education to prevent falls in subacute care. Clinical Rehabilitation. 20: 970-79.

Hill, K. (invited speaker). (2006). Don’t wait till the horse has bolted – early risk identification. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Hill, K. (invited speaker). (2006). Falls: Risk factors and current research. Australian Podiatry Association (Vic) State Conference, Melbourne, November.

Hill K. (invited speaker). (2006). The emergence of tai chi as an acceptable and effective exercise approach in improving health outcomes for older people. 2nd Annual National Disease Management Conference, Melbourne, September.

Hill, K.  (invited speaker). (2006). A firm foothold on safety: Reducing fall incidence and injury in the community and the hospital. 6th Annual Adverse Event Management Conference, Melbourne, June.  

Hill, K., Bernhardt, J., Gollings, E., Iverson, J., McGann, A., & Pearce, J. (2006). Vestibular rehabilitation – A need to reconsider current management in the public health system. Australian Association of Gerontology Conference, Sydney, November. 

Hill, K. (invited speaker), Fearn, M., Street, A., Mudge, L., McCarthy, P., Walsh, C., et al. (2006). Balance dysfunction and falls risk in people with haemophilia. XXVIIth International Congress of the World Federation of Hemophilia, Vancouver.

Hill, K., Moore, K., McLean, A., & Williams, S. (2006). Early identification of balance dysfunction and outcomes of an exercise intervention: Case studies. Australian Association of Gerontology Conference, Sydney, November. 

Johnson, P. Barber, B. & Gibson, S. (2006). Measurement of pain in older people who have dementia and are unable to communicate verbally.  Australian Pain Society 26th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, April.

Jones, T., Gook, S., & Gibson, S. (2006).  Measuring pain knowledge is not measuring pain beliefs.  Australian Pain Society 26th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, April.

Jones TE, Gibson SJ, Arnold C. The relationship between scores on the pain stages of change questionnaire and clinicians judgement about patients’ suitability for group treatment.  Australian Pain Society 27th Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, April 2006.

Lints, A., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Gibson, S., & Barber, B. (2006). A psychophysical investigation of the facial action coding system as an index of pain variability among seniors with and without Alzheimer’s disease. Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, April.

Mackintosh, S., Hill, K., Dodd, K., Goldie, P., & Culham, E. (2006). Impaired balance and a history of falls in hospital predict recurrent falls in the six months following stroke rehabilitation.  2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

McLennan, L., Mazzone, S., & Farrell, M. (2006). Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) measures of brain activity associated with inhalation of capsaicin in humans. 4th International Symposium on Cough, Imperial College, London, June.

Russell, M., Hill, K., Dharmage, S., Blackberry, I., & Day, L. (2006). Evaluation of the Falls risk for Older People in the Community (FROP-Com) Assessment Tool. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Russell, M., Hill, K., Gurrin, L., Blackberry, I., Day, L., & Dharmage, S. (2006). Evaluation of the Falls Risk for Older People in the Community (FROP-Com) Assessment Tool. 15th Australian Epidemiological Association Conference, Melbourne, September.  

Scherer S, Rule J, Browning M, Darzins P, Gibson SJ. Correlations between insomnia, pain and depression in nursing home residents. American Medical Directors Association Annual Scientific Conference, Houston, USA, June 2006.

Scherer S, Gouke R, Katz B, Farrell M, Bradbeer M, Gibson S. Dementia and pain, Alzheimer's Australia National Conference, Sydney, May 2006.

Walsh, W., Hill, K., Bennell, K., & Vu, M. (2006). Validation of the Western Health Falls Risk Assessment Tool – WHeFRA. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Wark, J., Hill, K., & Elhaber, N. (2006). Vitamin D status, parathyroid hormone levels and predictors of falls risk in well women aged 47-80 years. 3rd IOF Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Osteoporosis and 16th Annual Metting of the Australian and New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society, Port Douglas, October.

Williams, S., Brand, C., Hill, K., Moran, H., & Hunt, S. (2006). Balance impairment and falls risk in people with lower limb osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Yang, XJ., Haralambous, B., Angus, J., & Hill, K. (2006). Falls and falls prevention among Chinese older people in Australia: Knowledge and attitudes. 2nd Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Brisbane, November.

Theses

Nicola Ball, BSc (Hons), 2006. Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne. The role of uncertainty and harm attribution components of anxiety in pain perception.