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Selected Grants

Amount awarded Grant and project details
$97,800 Moyira Elizabeth Vine Fund for Research into Schizophrenia Program, University of Sydney, 2023
Advance care planning in persons with schizophrenia – a qualitative study of attitudes, experiences, facilitators and barriers for persons with schizophrenia, their carers and clinicians
Investigators: Wand A, Sands M, Meller A, Smith C, Naganathan V, Peisah C.
$4000 Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) Allied Health Workplace Learning Program, 2023
Harm reduction intervention for hoarding and squalor
Investigators: Perkes D, Stevens E.

Our Publications

2023

Duperron MG, Knol MJ, Le Grand Q, …. Paradise M. et al: Genomics of perivascular space burden unravels early mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease. Nat Med 2023; 29:950-962
Findlay L, Kellett R, Lubbe S, Wand A. Pathways to Community Living (PCLI) in practice: local development and adaptation within an Older Peoples Mental Health service. Australasian Psychiatry, 2023, 31(6):824-829.
Ho J, Wells K, Jacek S, Francis-Taylor R, Halliday G. Clinician by day, filmmaker by night: The development of a consumer inspired educational electroconvulsive therapy video. Australasian Psychiatry, 2023, 31(3), 353–355. https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562231158920
Jeyasingam N, McLean L, Mitchell L, Wand APF. Attitudes to ageing amongst Health Care Professionals: A Qualitative Systematic Review. European Geriatric Medicine, 2023, 14(5):889-908.
Loftus K, Wand AP, Breen J, Hunt G, Peisah C. Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medication Use in People Living with Dementia in the Community: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Drugs & Aging, 2023, 40(12):1053-1084.
Pathmanathan G, Wand A, Draper B. Recent trends and developments in suicide prevention for older adults. Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypsc.2023.03.018.
Walker AR, Srasuebkul, P. Trollor JN, Wand APF, Draper B, Cvejic RC, Moxey A, Reppermund S. Risk factors for dementia and self-harm: a linkage study. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 2023, 19(100): 5138-5150.
Wand A, Udall S, Sheather M, Tripodi R, Halliday G. ECT and cataract surgery- is it safe? Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 228.
Wand, AP, Karageorge, A, Browne R, Jessop T, Peisah, C. A qualitative study of multiple voices to inform Aftercare services for older persons following self-harm. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2023 Jan;38(1):e5876. doi: 10.1002/gps.5876.

Our Presentations

2023

Evatt M. “After Hello” Exploring rapport building techniques used by mental health occupational therapists, Occupational Therapy Australia National Conference.
Wand A. What can older people and their carers teach us about suicide prevention? RANZCP Congress, Perth, May 2023. Invited speaker.
Hely N, Sands M, Wand A. SQiD talks: A qualitative study about Starting Conversations with the Single Question in Delirium (SQiD). RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age annual meeting, Nov 2023, Melbourne.
Yong M, Wand A. Falls and identity in older adults – formulation guiding management. RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age annual meeting, Nov 2023, Melbourne.
Hely N, Sands M, Wand A. A qualitative examination of the Single Question in Delirium (SQiD) - how does it work?   Australasian Delirium Association DECLARED 2023, Nov 2023, Sydney (UNSW).

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