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"Building the Threads of Connection that We Already Have": The Nature of Connections via Technology for Older People

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

"It's Huge, in a Way." Conflicting Stakeholder Priorities for Managing Hearing Impairment for People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care Facilities

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

"The biggest problem we've ever had to face": how families manage driving cessation with people with dementia.

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

A Developmental Psychological Perspective on the Human–Animal Bond

article

A Review of Tobacco, Alcohol, Adiposity, and Activity as Predictors of Cognitive Change

article

A Text for the Well-Rounded Practitioner Neuropsychotherapy and Community Integration: Brain Illness, Emotions, and Behavior. T. Judd. 1999. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 371 pp., $79.95

A comparison of the MMSE and the TICS-m in hearing-impaired older adults

scholarly article

A comparison of the hazard perception ability of matched groups of healthy drivers aged 35 to 55, 65 to 74, and 75 to 84 years

A driving cessation program to identify and improve transport and lifestyle issues of older retired and retiring drivers

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

A fond farewell

A new year, and new perspectives on professional psychology

A veritable psychological buffet

Adapting the Propensity for Angry Driving Scale for use in Australian research

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

Age-related changes in generalized anxiety disorder symptoms

scientific article

Aging, mental health, and demographic change: Challenges for psychotherapists

article

Aging, with grace

scholarly article published 2011

Alzheimer and vascular dementias and driving. A prospective road and laboratory study

scientific article published in May 1995

An Australian facts on ageing quiz

scientific article published on 30 September 2012

An exciting time for Clinical Psychologist

Anxiety and depression in adults in their eighties: do gender differences remain?

scientific article published on 22 July 2011

Anxiety and depression in the elderly: do we know any more?

scientific article

Anxiety rating scales in Parkinson's disease: a critical review updating recent literature.

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Are the national guidelines for health behaviour appropriate for older Australians? Evidence from the Men, Women and Ageing project

scientific article published on 29 December 2010

Assessing Late-Life Anxiety in an International Context: Experiences With the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory

Assessment of Insight and Self-Awareness in Older Drivers

article

Assessment of depression in aging contexts: General considerations when working with older adults

article

Associations between lifestyle and cognitive function over time in women aged 40-79 years.

scientific article

Attainment of Competencies in Clinical Psychology Training: Ways Forward in the Australian Context

article

Attitudes towards psychological treatment among older Australians

article

Attitudes, knowledge, and interest: preparing university students to work in an aging world.

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Australian clinical psychology training program directors survey

article

Author reply: To PMID 22998322.

scientific article published in September 2013

Barriers and facilitators to asking adults with hearing loss about their emotional and psychological well-being: a COM-B analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Behavioral correlates of anxiety in well-functioning older adults

scientific article

Bridge across the Tasman

COVID-19 and Psychogeriatrics: The View from Australia

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

California Older Adult Stroop Test

California Older Adult Stroop Test (COAST)

Can we do better? Researchers' experiences with ethical review boards on projects with later life as a focus

scientific article

Carer levels of concern on driving and other activities in older people that put others at risk.

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

Change in adiposity measures and cognition in Australian aging women

article

Characteristics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Older Adults Living in Residential Care: Protocol for a Systematic Review

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Characteristics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Older Adults Living in Residential Care: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint)

Clinical Significance of Individual GAD Symptoms in Later Life

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Clinical and Counseling Psychology Graduate Students’ Expectations for Future Work With Older Adults

Clinical issues in the treatment of anxiety and depression in older adults with Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 09 October 2013

Clinical significance of worry and physical symptoms in late-life generalized anxiety disorder

Clinical staging and profiling of late-life anxiety disorders; the need for collaboration and a life-span perspective

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Older Adults: Practical Guidelines for Adapting Therapy Structure

Cognitive behavioral therapy for older adults: Practical guidelines for the use of homework assignments

Cognitive effects of chemotherapy-induced menopause in breast cancer

scientific article published on 2 November 2011

Companion Animals and Health in Older Populations: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 17 August 2019

Comparison of neuropsychological functioning in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

scientific article

Dealing with Stress and Trauma

Delirium in Australian hospitals: a prospective study

scientific article published on 12 September 2013

Delirium: A Summary of Current Clinical and Research Efforts

Delusion-like experiences in older people with anxiety disorders

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Depression and Anxiety in Older and Middle-aged Adults With Diabetes

Depression in a community-dwelling sample of older adults with late-onset or lifetime epilepsy

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Depression rating scales in Parkinson's disease: A critical review updating recent literature

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Designing Virtual Reality Assisted Psychotherapy for Anxiety in Older Adults Living with Parkinson's Disease: Integrating Literature for Scoping

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Development and validation of a short form of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory--the GAI-SF.

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Development and validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory

scientific article published in February 2007

Dimensions of stereotypical attitudes among older adults: Analysis of two countries

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Double jeopardy: Comorbid anxiety and depression in late life

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

Driving, Space, and Access to Activity

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Dysprosodic speech following basal ganglia insult: toward a conceptual framework for the study of the cerebral representation of prosody

scientific article

EDITORIAL

Ecological validity in neuropsychological assessment: a case for greater consideration in research with neurologically intact populations

scientific article published on May 2006

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial

Effect of a group intervention to promote older adults' adjustment to driving cessation on community mobility: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

Evaluation of a caregiver education program to support memory and communication in dementia: a controlled pretest-posttest study with nursing home staff

scientific article published on 12 June 2011

Evidence for the involvement of the RSG2 gene in risk for anxiety and related phenotypes in an elderly population not selected for this trait

article

Examining timely topics

Exploitation in Older Adults: Social Vulnerability and Personal Competence Factors

Exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening for older adults

article

Exploring the therapeutic environment for older women with late-life depression: An examination of the benefits of an activity group for older people suffering from depression

article

Feeling that life is not worth living (death thoughts) among middle-aged, Australian women providing unpaid care

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

Final thoughts in 2006, looking ahead to 2007

article published in 2006

Financial Capacity in Older Adults: A Review of Clinical Assessment Approaches and Considerations

article

Financial capacity in older adults: a growing concern for clinicians

scientific article published on February 2015

Fitness to Practice in the Profession of Psychology: Should We Assess this During Clinical Training?

article by Kate Sofronoff et al published June 2011 in Australian Psychologist

Focus on clinical psychology postgraduate training: Taking the curriculum into the next decade

article by Nancy Pachana et al published December 2008 in Australian Psychologist

Forays into new territory

Frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer's disease: differential cognitive features

scientific article

Frontotemporal dementia versus vascular dementia: differential features on mental status examination

scientific article published in May 1997

Gender differences in social network size and satisfaction in adults in their 70s.

scientific article published in July 2010

Geriatric Anxiety Inventory

Geriatric Anxiety Inventory--Short Form

Geriatric Anxiety Inventory--Spanish Version

article

Geropsychology content in clinical training programs: a comparison of Australian, Canadian and U.S. data

scientific article

Getting to know you but also to know me: changes in self-perceptions of aging among aged care workers after a Virtual Dementia Tour

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Graduate students’ geropsychology training opportunities and perceived competence in working with older adults

HRT and everyday memory at menopause: a comparison of two samples of mid-aged women

scientific article published in January 2006

Health across generations: findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

Health professionals' detection of depression and anxiety in their patients with diabetes: The influence of patient, illness and psychological factors

scientific article

How well do standard clinical neuropsychological tests identify malingering? A preliminary analysis.

scientific article published in April 1999

Impact of health, treatment and psychological factors on cognitive functioning after chemotherapy for early breast cancer

article

Implications of non-response of older women to a short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale

scientific article published on January 2003

Improving older drivers' hazard perception ability

scientific article published on June 2010

International trends in geropsychology

Introduction to Special Section on Driving and Older Adults

article published in 2006

Is cognitive functioning detrimentally affected after early, induced menopause?

scientific article published on January 2009

Is cortical automatic threshold estimation a feasible alternative for hearing threshold estimation with adults with dementia living in aged care?

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Is planning for driving cessation critical for the well-being and lifestyle of older drivers?

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Issues in training in clinical psychology in Australia: Interplay between training goals and legal standards of practice

article

Late life changes in mental health: a longitudinal study of 9683 women

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Late-life anxiety is coming of age.

scientific article

Management of Sleep Disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease Patients, Carers and the Patient and Carer Dyadic Relationship: A Scoping Review

article

Measuring anxiety in late life: a psychometric examination of the geriatric anxiety inventory and geriatric anxiety scale

scientific article published on 6 September 2014

Measuring episodic memory: A novel approach with an indefinite number of alternative forms

Medication Adherence in New Zealand Older Adults: Effects of an External Cognitive Support

article

Memory and communication support in dementia: research-based strategies for caregivers

scientific article

Memory and communication support strategies in dementia: effect of a training program for informal caregivers

scientific article published in December 2012

Multisensory installations in residential aged-care facilities: increasing novelty and encouraging social engagement through modest environmental changes

scientific article published in September 2014

Neural basis of confabulation

scientific article

Older drivers’ insight into their hazard perception ability

scientific article published on 22 June 2011

P2-239: Performance characteristics of the geriatric anxiety inventory in memory clinic attendees

Participant feedback and satisfaction with the UQDRIVE groups for driving cessation

scientific article

Passive therapeutic gardens. A study on an inpatient geriatric ward

scientific article

Performance of the Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale in older women

scientific article published on 5 May 2008

Perspectives on Clinical Psychology Training by Students at Australian Regional and Urban Universities

article

Post-traumatic stress disorder, social support and cognitive status in community-based older veterans

Predictors of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use in two cohorts of Australian women

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Predictors of anxiety in centenarians: health, economic factors, and loneliness

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Predictors of cognitive decline after chemotherapy in breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Predictors of financial capacity performance in older adults using the Financial Competence Assessment Inventory

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Predictors of young dating adults' inclination to engage in extradyadic sexual activities: a multi-perspective study

scientific article

Prevalence and correlates of generalized anxiety disorder among older adults in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Professional doctoral training in psychology: International comparison and commentary

Professional psychology training: Curriculum examinations from several vantage points

Promoting the use of enduring powers of attorney in older adults: a literature review

scientific article published on 05 June 2013

Prospective observational study of dementia and delirium in the acute hospital setting.

scientific article

Prospective observational study of dementia in older patients admitted to acute hospitals.

scientific article published on 23 April 2013

Protocol for Fit Bodies, Fine Minds: a randomized controlled trial on the affect of exercise and cognitive training on cognitive functioning in older adults.

scientific article

Providing information on mental well-being during audiological consultations: exploring barriers and facilitators using the COM-B model

scientific article published in 2022

Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults

Psychometric properties and health correlates of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in Australian community-residing older women

scientific article published in April 2010

Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory

scientific article published on 4 August 2011

Quality of Life in Australian Adults Aged 50 Years and Over: Data Using the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQOL-DW).

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Recurrent readmissions in medical patients: a prospective study

scientific article

Rehabilitation Programs for Elderly Women Inpatients with Schizophrenia

scientific article (publication date: 13 August 2008)

Rehabilitation in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Barriers and Facilitators in a Dementia Context

scholarly article by Leander Mitchell & Nancy Pachana published 28 May 2013 in The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling

Relations between companion animals and self-reported health in older women: cause, effect or artifact?

scientific article

Relationship between changes in body weight and cognitive function in middle-aged and older women.

scientific article

Relationships between the National Adult Reading Test and memory

scientific article published in May 2011

Reliability, validity and factor structure of the CES-D in Iranian elderly

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Reporting of life events over time: methodological issues in a longitudinal sample of women

scientific article published in March 2011

Research highlighting assessment and intervention

Research highlighting psychology and social justice

article by Nancy Pachana published March 2010 in Australian Psychologist

Research highlighting supervision, culture

article

Responsiveness of the Duke Social Support sub-scales in older women

scientific article published in October 2008

Satisfaction With Pharmacy Services Among Older Adults in New Zealand

article

Screening for depression and anxiety among older Chinese immigrants living in Western countries: The use of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI).

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Screening for mental disorders in residential aged care facilities

scientific article

Shaping attitudes: The association between prior contact with residential aged care and resistance to enter residential aged care

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Social Identity Change and Driving in Later Life

Social Phobia symptoms across the adult lifespan

scientific article published on 5 July 2014

Social Vulnerability Scale for older adults: Validation study*

Social support and health-related quality of life in women with breast cancer: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

Social support and subsequent disability: it is not the size of your network that counts

scientific article published on 27 March 2012

Special issue on training in psychogeriatrics

scientific article published on 4 June 2010

Specific phobias in older adults: characteristics and differential diagnosis

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Stigma, seizure frequency and quality of life: the impact of epilepsy in late adulthood

scientific article published on 23 October 2007

Suicide in patients suffering from late-life anxiety disorders; a comparison with younger patients

scientific article

Survey of Current Curriculum Practices within Australian Postgraduate Clinical Training Programmes: Students' and Programme Directors' Perspectives

article

Survey of New Zealand older driver assessment practices

article

Teaching Methods to Complement Competencies in Reducing the “Junkyard” Curriculum in Clinical Psychology

Test-retest reliability and practice effects of the Wechsler Memory Scale-III.

scientific article published on 12 January 2012

The 2011 International Psychogeriatric Association Junior Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics

scientific article published on November 16, 2011

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory: International Use and Future Directions

article

The Influence of Emotions on Language and Communication Disorders

article

The Role of Pet Ownership and Attachment in Older Adults

The clinical spectrum of anxiety in Parkinson's disease

scientific article

The clinical utility of the geriatric anxiety inventory in older adults with cognitive impairment

scientific article published in October 2008

The development and validation of two complementary measures of drivers’ hazard perception ability

article

The effect of having a partner on activities of daily living in men and women aged 82-87 years

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

The effect of hormone replacement therapy on mood and everyday memory in younger mid-life women

scientific article published on November 2006

The future is here: a review of foresight systems in anxiety and depression

scientific article published on 09 December 2013

The hazard perception ability of older drivers

scientific article published in July 2008

The impact of attrition on the representativeness of cohort studies of older people

scientific article

The impact of depression, seizure variables and locus of control on health related quality of life in a community dwelling sample of older adults

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

The impact of owning a hearing dog on quality of life, hearing handicap, and social functioning: an Australian cohort

scientific article published in 2021

The importance of feedback and communication strategies with older adults: therapeutic and ethical considerations

The longer-term effects of a brief hazard perception training intervention in older drivers.

scientific article

The stages of driving cessation for people with dementia: needs and challenges

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

Thinking Outside the Box

Thinking, feeling, attitudes and ethics: Core issues in psychology

Threshold and subthreshold generalized anxiety disorder in later life

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Through a glass, only slightly less darkly: advances in measuring the influences of late-life anxiety

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Too Old for Freedom? Not Too Late to Try

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Training of Geriatric Mental Health Providers in CBT Interventions for Older Adults

article

Transitions

Use of a Psychoeducational Skill Training DVD Program to Reduce Stress in Chinese Australian and Singaporean Dementia Caregivers: A Pilot Study

article

Using the CALTAP Lifespan Developmental Framework with Older Adults

Utility of a Computerised Cognitive Screen in MCI and Depression in an Older Population

Validation of the Australian Propensity for Angry Driving Scale (Aus-PADS).

scientific article

Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of Geriatric Anxiety Inventory--GAI-BR.

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

Validation of the interRAI Cognitive Performance Scale against independent clinical diagnosis and the Mini-Mental State Examination in older hospitalized patients.

scientific article published in January 2013

Validity and reliability of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 29 December 2010

Value of interviews for admission to clinical training programs: Perspective of program directors

Viagra: the little blue pill with big repercussions

scientific article published on 19 July 2011

Who Is Pulling the Leash? Effects of Human Gender and Dog Sex on Human-Dog Dyads When Walking On-Leash

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

“Live and Learn”: An Experienced Navigator Helps Caregivers Chart Their Course

article by Nancy Pachana published 2005 in PsycCritiques