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The Department of Geriatric Medicine is engaged in research that examines the major clinical syndromes experienced by older persons in the community: falls, mobility disorders, delirium, dementia, continence, polypharmacy and frailty.
Our research into falls prevention includes multicentre randomised controlled trials of exercise therapy in Parkinson's disease, dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
Our work on incontinence has led to multinational collaborations and an update of the Chapter on Incontinence in the Frail Elderly (6TH International Consultation on Incontinence) and participation in an International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) for Overactive Bladder (OAB).
The safe use of medications in older persons is the focus of many of our ongoing studies.
| Dr George Szonyi | International Consultation of Incontinence and ICHOM for OAB |
| Associate Professor Mark Latt | Falls, Parkinson's disease, Dementia and Polypharmacy |
| Annie Hepworth | Falls, Delirium and Dementia |
| Dr Scott Murray | Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation |
| Dr Cristina Cristoloveanu | Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation |
| Shahab R, Lochrie N, Moppett IK, Dasgupta P, Partridge JSL, Dhesi JK. A Description of Interventions Prompted by Preoperative Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Optimization in Older Elective Noncardiac Surgical Patients. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2022 Dec;23(12):1948-1954.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.08.009. Epub 2022 Sep 20. |
| Pelicioni P, Menant J, Henderson E, Latt M, Brodie M, Lord S. Mild and marked executive dysfunction and falls in people with Parkinson's disease. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy 2021; 25(4): 437-443. |
| Huang, X., Latt, M., Khushi, M., Pelicioni, P., Brodie, M., Lord, S., Loy, C., Poon, S. (2021). A multi-view classification framework for falls prediction: Multiple-domain assessments in Parkinson's disease. 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2021), Manoa: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. |
| van Schooten, K., Taylor, M., Close, J., Davis, J., Paul, S., Canning, C., Latt, M., Hoang, P., Kochan, N., Sachdev, P., et al (2021). Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Functions Contribute to the Prediction of Falls in Old Age and Neurologic Disorders: An Observational Study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2021; 102(5): 874-880 |
| Pelicioni PHS, Menant JC, Latt MD, Lord SR. Falls in Parkinson's Disease Subtypes: Risk Factors, Locations and Circumstances. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health 2019; 16(12). |
| Teng C, Loy CT, Sellars M, Pond D, Latt MD, Waite LM, Sinka V, Logeman C, Tong A. Making decisions about long-term institutional care placement among people with dementia and their caregivers: systematic review of qualitative studies. The Gerontologist Advance Access publication May 29, 2019. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/10.1093/geront/gnz046 |
| Latt MD, Lewis S, Zekry O, Fung VSC. Factors to Consider in the Selection of Dopamine Agonists for Older Persons with Parkinson's Disease. Drugs & Aging. 2019 Mar;36(3):189-202. |
| Kahlaee R, Latt M, Schneider CR. Comment on: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of the Association Between Anti-hypertensive Classes and the Risk of Falls Among Older Adults. Drugs & Aging 2019;36(1):93-94. |
| Poon C, Gorji N, Latt M, Tsoi K, Choy S, Loy C, Poon S. Derivation and Analysis of Dynamic Handwriting Features as Clinical Markers of Parkinson's Disease. 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2019. |
| Huang X, Khushi M, Latt M, Loy C, Poon S. Machine Learning based method for Huntington's disease gait pattern recognition. 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2019), Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. |