An Interview with Dr. James Vickers - Director of the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Center
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on All Home Care Matters we are privileged to welcome a very special guest, Dr. James Vickers. Dr. Vickers is the Director of the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Center at the University of Tasmania.
Furthermore, Dr. Vickers has published over 180 research papers and was awarded a DSc from the University of Tasmania in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to neuroscience research. Professor Vickers has been involved in developing a range of health courses at the University of Tasmania, including Massive Open Online Courses on dementia. He developed the ISLAND Project which seeks to understand who is the Tasmanian population is most at risk of dementia and how our population can self-manage modifiable risk behaviors to build resilience to dementia.
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Masters course (https://www.utas.edu.au/wicking/mdem). This is a modularised program based around four thematic areas relevant to dementia – Health and Social Care, Neurobiology, Policies and Systems and Public Health. There is also substantial content around understanding research related to dementia.
Other educational offerings are the MOOCs. The next course, Understanding Dementia, is available to start in February. https://www.utas.edu.au/wicking/understanding-dementia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in |
| 0:15.5 | Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello. Rated Local. Hello and welcome to all home care matters. |
| 0:26.6 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.6 | Today we have a very special guest. |
| 0:33.6 | We have the director of the Wickeings Dementia Research Center, Dr. James Vickers. |
| 0:39.9 | Welcome, Dr. Vickers. |
| 0:42.1 | Hi, Lance. Great to be here. |
| 0:43.8 | Thank you for being here. So, do you prefer we call you James or Dr. Vickers? |
| 0:48.7 | No, James, fine. Thank you. |
| 0:51.0 | So, James, tell us about the research and the work you guys are doing at Tasmania University. |
| 0:59.0 | I know we had Tim England on previously, and he is one of your graduates from the program, |
| 1:05.0 | but also recently is a graduate of your new master's degree program in dementia, which is just fascinating to me |
| 1:13.6 | because that is such oddity to have a program and a degree program built around just dementia |
| 1:20.2 | alone. So I'd love for you to share us some information about that. |
| 1:23.4 | Well, thank you very much, Lance. Yes, the Wicking Centre was set up in 2008. And already then we were seeing that there were greatly increased impacts of dementia, really across health and social settings. And that was set to increase with the ageing of populations, not just in Australia, but across the world. And so we do |
| 1:45.9 | education and research, both of those things are really important to us, because indeed, |
| 1:50.7 | some of our earlier research showed that it didn't really probably sometimes matter if you were |
| 1:55.4 | a healthcare professional of some kind, or you're working in age care in one of those sectors, or indeed, if you |
| 2:02.8 | were a family carer, there was a good chance that you probably didn't have enough knowledge |
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