Psych Matters: History of Old Age Mental Health
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -The history of old age mental health and dementia care in Australia and New Zealand is largely an untold story. Major changes in service delivery occurred in both countries that largely started in the 1980s. To capture the oral history about these and later developments in Australia, Brian Draper interviewed many of the key individuals who were instrumental in the changes that occurred. Aged care is a multidisciplinary field and so the interviews include psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, geriatricians and an occupational therapist.
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Episodes
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Colleen Doyle
August 11, 2021 23:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Professor Colleen Doyle about her work in old age mental health. Colleen Doyle BA Hons PhD MAPS Colleen Doyle PhD is currently senior principal research fellow at NARI and a research consultant. She was Professor of Aged Care at the Australian Catholic University 2012-2017 in a health service research partnership with Villa Maria Catholic Homes. Her research with NARI focuses on the impact of befriending for older adults living in residential age...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Dr Wayne Reid
January 03, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Dr Wayne Reid. Dr Wayne Reid BA Psych (Hons). M.Psych., PhD. CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Dr Wayne Reid has a distinguished background in Clinical Neuropsychology. He gained his first degree in Psychology at the University of Reading (Berks) UK. In 1983 he completed an M.Psych at the University of Sydney and then a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. His main areas of research have been in Parkinson...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Tony Broe
December 20, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Professor Tony Broe. Professor Tony Broe AM, BA, MB BS, FRACP, FACRM Senior Principal Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of NSW Neurologist and Geriatrician Professor Tony Broe AM graduated in social sciences (Anthropology, Geography, History) and Medicine from the University of Sydney. He trained in General Medicine (MRACP 1966), Geriatric Medicine and Neurology (FRACP 1973) in Sydney, U...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Elizabeth Beattie
December 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Elizabeth Beattie. Professor Elizabeth Beattie, PhD, RN, FGA, FAAN Elizabeth Beattie is a psychogeriatric nurse with extensive clinical, educational and research expertise gained in Australia, the UK and the US. Her first exposure to specialised mental health care for older adults was at Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals, London in the 1970s. She has an enduring research interest in improving care quality for older adults experiencing dementia...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Emeritus Edmond Chiu
November 22, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Edmond Chiu. Professor Emeritus Edmond Chiu, AM; MBBS;DPM; FRANZCP; founded the Section (later Faculty) of Psychiatry of Old Age within the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He held international leadership positions in Old Age Psychiatry as the President of the International Psychogeriatric Association and the Chair of the Section of Old Age Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association. In 1969 he was appointed to Austr...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Marianne Cummins
November 08, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Marianne Cummins. Marianne Cummins is a Registered Nurse specialising in Gerontological and Older Person’s Mental Health (OPMH) nursing across Acute and Community Care settings. She is the current President of the Psychogeriatric Nurses Association Inc (PGNA) since 2019. Marianne has a long career in Gerontology and OPMH as Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) and Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC). Some of the positions held include managing the first Psychogeri...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Associate Professor Janine Stevenson
October 25, 2020 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Janine Stevenson. Janine has combined her interests in old age psychiatry and psychotherapy in her research and practice over many years working in Sydney. Associate Professor Janine L Stevenson MB.BS (Hons 1) Sydney, M.M. (psychotherapy), PhD, FRANZCP Associate Professor Stevenson has been in psychiatric practice now for over 38 years, working in adult and old age psychiatry. Recently retired from Medical Director of an Older Adult inpatient psych...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Associate Professor Janine Stevenson
October 25, 2020 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Janine Stevenson. Janine has combined her interests in old age psychiatry and psychotherapy in her research and practice over many years working in Sydney. Associate Professor Janine L Stevenson MB.BS (Hons 1) Sydney, M.M. (psychotherapy), PhD, FRANZCP Associate Professor Stevenson has been in psychiatric practice now for over 38 years, working in adult and old age psychiatry. Recently retired from Medical Director of an Older Adult inpatient psych...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Gerard Byrne
October 11, 2020 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with Gerard Byrne who has been very prominent in developing old age mental health services and academia in Queensland. Gerard has had a long term prominent role in FPOA being a past Faculty Chair as well as a long term Chair of the POA advanced training committee. Professor Gerard Byrne BSc(Med) MBBS PhD FRANZCP Gerard Byrne is an old age psychiatrist and the Mayne Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland. He is the Directo...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor David Ames
September 27, 2020 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBIn this interview Brian Draper speaks with David Ames who for over 30 years has combined clinical and research interests in old age psychiatry. He served as secretary of the Section of Psychiatry of Old Age in the early 1990s and was very active in the International Psychogeriatric Association. David was awarded a College Citation in 2017. Professor David Ames AO BA MD BS FRCPsych FRANZCP David Ames studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne and trained in psychiatry at Royal Melbour...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Henry Brodaty
September 13, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBIn this interview, Brian Draper speaks with his colleague Henry Brodaty who in 1990 was the first person in Australia appointed to a Chair in Old Age Psychiatry (formerly Psychogeriatrics) at Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, through the University of NSW. Henry's work in developing the Prince Henry Hospital dementia carers program in the 1980s had enormous national and international influence in service development. Henry has always combined very high international quality research on deme...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Richard Fleming
August 30, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBBrian Draper speaks with Richard Fleming who has been a strong advocate for improving the environments of institutions for the care of older people since his ground breaking work in co-designing the Confused and Disturbed Elderly (CADE) units in NSW in the 1980s. Subsequent work includes researching design principles in nursing homes and hospitals and the development of training programs for aged care workers. Professor Richard Fleming B.Tech (Hons); Dip.Clin.Psy.; PhD. Trained as a clinica...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor Daniel O'Connor
August 16, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBDaniel O'Connor hails from New Zealand and in the 1980s worked in England with Sir Martin Roth in a ground breaking study of dementia in the community. He then moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s as the Foundation Chair in Old Age Psychiatry at Monash University. Subsequently he became Chair of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age from 2005-2007. He was awarded a College Citation in 2012. Professor Daniel O'Connor MD FRANZCP Daniel O’Connor is Deputy Chief Psychiatrist, Department of He...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Dr Sid Williams
August 02, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBBrian Draper speaks with Sid Williams who developed an old age psychiatry service at Lidcombe Hospital in the 1980s working alongside the geriatric medical services and including the first carer oriented multidisciplinary memory clinic in Australia. He received the RANZCP Ian Simpson Award in 2014. Dr Sid Williams MBBS, FRANZCP Sid Williams, formerly Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, had a prominent role in the renaissance of the Psychiatry of Old Age discipline in Australia...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Dr Deborah Koder
July 19, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBBrian Draper speaks with Deborah Koder who has specialised in clinical psychology with older people for over 30 years. She has been very active in the Australian Psychological Society older persons special interest group and has been involved in a number of clinical research projects. Dr Deborah Koder PhD, MCP, BScPsych Dr Deborah Koder is a clinical psychologist who has been working clinically with older adults for the past 30 years. She has taught and published in the area of applying c...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor John Snowdon - Part 2
July 05, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn the second part of the interview, John Snowdon talks about his interest in nursing home psychiatry and the transition of the Section of Psychiatry of Old Age into a Faculty under his leadership. John was awarded a College Citation in 2002. Professor John Snowdon M.D., M.Phil., FRANZCP, FRCPsych, FRACP A.M John Snowdon first worked in old age psychiatry in 1973. At Sydney’s Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals he became progressively more involved in psychiatric services for older ...
Introducing Psych Matters: History of Old Age Mental Health
June 22, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBBrian Draper introduces the podcast Psych Matters: History of Old Age Mental Health. Professor Brian Draper MBBS MD FRANZCP Professor (Conjoint), School of Psychiatry University of NSW, Sydney, Australia Brian Draper is an old age psychiatrist and Conjoint Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. He is senior staff specialist, Older Persons’ Mental Health Service, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Neurosciences Research Aus...
Professor Brian Draper: Interview with Professor John Snowdon - Part 1
May 26, 2020 01:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBBrian Draper speaks with John Snowdon about his early career in the UK and Australia and how he gravitated towards old age psychiatry. Professor John Snowdon M.D., M.Phil., FRANZCP, FRCPsych, FRACP A.M John Snowdon first worked in old age psychiatry in 1973. At Sydney’s Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals he became progressively more involved in psychiatric services for older people and in the community. In 1992 he was appointed director of psychogeriatric services in Central Sydne...