List of works by Daniel W O'Connor

A community survey of mental and physical infirmity in nonagenarians.

scientific article published in November 1989

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.

scientific article published on February 2006

A comparison of two treatments of agitated behavior in nursing home residents with dementia: simulated family presence and preferred music.

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A comparison of verbal communication and psychiatric medication use by Greek and Italian residents with dementia in Australian ethno-specific and mainstream aged care facilities

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

A literature review of spaced-retrieval interventions: a direct memory intervention for people with dementia

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

A randomized crossover trial to study the effect of personalized, one-to-one interaction using Montessori-based activities on agitation, affect, and engagement in nursing home residents with Dementia

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A randomized, controlled cross-over trial of dermally-applied lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) oil as a treatment of agitated behaviour in dementia.

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A study protocol to investigate the management of depression and challenging behaviors associated with dementia in aged care settings

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A survey of publicly funded aged psychiatry services in Australia and New Zealand

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Aged Care Assessment Service practitioners: a review of current practice for assessment of cognition of older people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Victoria

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

An audit of physical restraint and seclusion in five psychogeriatric admission wards in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Apparent antidepressant over-prescribing to older Australians might reflect invalid CIDI depression diagnoses

scientific article published in November 2010

Are reports of cognitive testing among older electroconvulsive therapy recipients clinically valid?

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Australian psychiatry trainees' reports of expanded specialist training placements

scientific article published in June 2010

Care planning practices for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in residential aged care: a pilot of an education toolkit informed by the Aged Care Funding Instrument

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Challenging behaviours in nursing home residents with dementia: a randomized controlled trial of multidisciplinary interventions.

scientific article published in January 2002

Changes in self-rated health, disability and contact with services in a very elderly cohort: a 6-year follow-up study

scientific article published in January 1998

Changes to psychotropic medications in the six months after admission to nursing homes in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published on 4 March 2010

Clinical issues relating to the diagnosis of mild dementia in a British community survey

scientific article published on May 1991

Cognition in elderly patients receiving unilateral and bilateral electroconvulsive therapy: a prospective, naturalistic comparison.

scientific article published on 6 January 2010

Cognitive impairment: a challenge for community care. A comparison of the domiciliary service receipt of cognitively impaired and equally dependent physically impaired elderly women.

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Cohort profile: the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C)

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Comparison of family satisfaction in Australian ethno-specific and mainstream aged care facilities

scientific article published on 06 January 2014

Continuation-maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: quality standards in 3 Australian aged psychiatry services

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Deprescribing psychotropic medications in aged care facilities: the potential role of family members

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Depression among newly admitted Australian nursing home residents.

scientific article published on 17 March 2008

Differences in older people's responses to CIDI's depression screening and diagnostic questions may point to age-related bias

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Different responses to K-10 and CIDI suggest that complex structured psychiatric interviews underestimate rates of mental disorder in old people.

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Do older Australians truly have low rates of anxiety and depression? A critique of the 1997 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Evaluation of personalised, one-to-one interaction using Montessori-type activities as a treatment of challenging behaviours in people with dementia: the study protocol of a crossover trial

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Existing psychological problems predict depression in primary care better than sociodemographic factors

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Expanded specialist training: psychiatry supervisors' feedback

scientific article published in June 2010

Expanding Australian psychiatry training settings beyond metropolitan public hospitals: background and issues

scientific article published on January 2009

Expanding psychiatry training: Australian specialists' and trainees' perceived gaps in experiences and settings.

scientific article published in December 2009

Family carers' responses to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

scientific article published in November 2003

Has electroconvulsive therapy use remained stable over time? A decade of electroconvulsive therapy service provision in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

How is psychiatry taught to Australian and New Zealand medical students?

scientific article published on February 1999

How well do Australian medical schools prepare general practitioners to care for patients with mental disorders?

scientific article published in March 2004

Incidence of dementia in a population older than 75 years in the United Kingdom.

scientific article published in April 1994

Individualized guidelines for the management of aggression in dementia - Part 1: key concepts

scientific article published on 14 March 2012

Individualized guidelines for the management of aggression in dementia - Part 2: appraisal of current guidelines

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

International price comparisons of Alzheimer's drugs: a way to close the affordability gap.

scientific article published on 8 September 2009

Internet video chat (Skype) family conversations as a treatment of agitation in nursing home residents with dementia

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Language use of older Italian-background persons with dementia in mainstream and ethno-specific residential care

scientific article published on 27 September 2005

Language-relevant interventions for verbally disruptive behaviors in dementia.

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Memory complaints and impairment in normal, depressed, and demented elderly persons identified in a community survey.

scientific article published in March 1990

Mental health scales and psychiatric diagnoses: responses to GHQ-12, K-10 and CIDI across the lifespan

scientific article published on 22 August 2009

Methodological challenges in studies of bright light therapy to treat sleep disorders in nursing home residents with dementia

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Personalized one-to-one intervention in agitated individuals with dementia: responders versus non-responders

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Predictors of hospital contact by very elderly people: a pilot study from a cohort of people aged 75 years and over

scientific article published in September 1995

Psychosocial treatments of behavior symptoms in dementia: a systematic review of reports meeting quality standards.

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Psychosocial treatments of psychological symptoms in dementia: a systematic review of reports meeting quality standards.

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Quality indicators of psychotropic prescribing to people with dementia in aged psychiatry inpatient units

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Specialist mental health consultation for depression in Australian aged care residents with dementia: a cluster randomized trial

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Survey of aged psychiatry services' support of older Australians with very severe, persistent behavioural symptoms of dementia

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

Systemic approach to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in residential aged care facilities.

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

The change in electrical energy delivered to aged patients over a course of moderate dose unilateral electroconvulsive therapy

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The clinical utility of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia as a routine assessment in nursing homes.

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

The effectiveness of continuation-maintenance ECT in reducing depressed older patients' hospital re-admissions

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The feasibility of volunteers facilitating personalized activities for nursing home residents with dementia and agitation.

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The impact upon extra-pyramidal side effects, clinical symptoms and quality of life of a switch from conventional to atypical antipsychotics (risperidone or olanzapine) in elderly patients with schizophrenia.

scientific article published in May 2003

The language needs of residents from linguistically diverse backgrounds in Victorian aged care facilities

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

The reliability and validity of the Mini-Mental State in a British community survey

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The safety and tolerability of clozapine in aged patients: a retrospective clinical file review.

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The study protocol of a blinded randomised-controlled cross-over trial of lavender oil as a treatment of behavioural symptoms in dementia

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The study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of family-mediated personalised activities for nursing home residents with dementia.

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Validity of the geriatric depression scale and the collateral source version of the geriatric depression scale in nursing homes

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Vascular risks and incident dementia: results from a cohort study of the very old.

scientific article published in May 1998

What was good about admission to an aged psychiatry ward? The subjective experiences of patients with depression.

scientific article published on 4 September 2007

Why are more highly educated people with dementia less likely to be prescribed antipsychotics?

scientific article published on 22 December 2014