The Celebration & Retirement of Dr. James Vickers
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to host and celebrate the retirement of Dr. James Vickers.
About Dr. James Vickers:
Distinguished Professor Dr. Vickers has an extensive track record in interventional cohort studies, cognition, neurogenetics, health services research and neuroscience research, and has published over 200 refereed articles. Distinguished Prof Vickers has held several national leadership roles, such as President of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS, 2014–2016) and Chair of the Scientific Panel of the Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation (2014-2016).
He was awarded a Doctor of Science from University of Tasmania in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to neuroscience research. He is a Board Member of the Dementia Australia Research Foundation and a member of the Dementia Expert Reference Group for the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.
Dr. James Vickers officially announced his retirement as Director of the Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) at the end of December 2025.
The distinguished panel that joined in celebrating Dr. Vickers career and contributions to field of dementia included:
Bettina Morrow - Associate Director Adult Protective Services
Dr. Jane Alty - Professor of Neurology at University of Tasmania Staff Specialist in Neurology at Royal Hobart Hospital
Henry Brodaty - Scientia Professor Co-Director, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing UNSW
Agnieszka Chudecka - PICAC Alliance Secretariat Lead (Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care)
Tim England - Podcaster and Dementia Care Expert/Educator who De-mystifies and De-stigmatises Dementia.
Amy Sender - Dementia Consultant at Montefiore
Graeme Samuel AC - Professor. Chair Dementia Australia Research Foundation
Joanna Sun - Lecturer
Kate Lawler - Associate Professor, Physiotherapy La Trobe University, Australia
Dr. Kathleen Doherty - Senior Lecturer in Dementia at the Wicking Dementia Research and education Centre and program lead for Equip and DREAM- two federally funded projects aiming to improve the knowledge and understanding of the aged care workforce
Matt Kirkcaldie - Senior lecturer at University of Tasmania
Sarah-Kaye Page - Trainer and Assessor, The Gordon TAFE
Tanya Buchanan - Professor and CEO of Dementia Australia
With a special video from Alzheimer's Disease International.
Transcript
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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. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
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| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.9 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.4 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.1 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:36.3 | here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:38.1 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome you to a special |
| 0:43.3 | episode of all home care matters, the celebration of Dr. James Vickers' retirement. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome, everybody, to the celebration of Dr. James Vickers' retirements. |
| 0:54.3 | Thank you so much for being here with us today. |
| 0:56.7 | I want to first start off, Dr. Vickers, if you wouldn't mind taking a few moments and introducing yourself to the audience. |
| 1:04.2 | Many thanks, Lance, this is wonderful to be here as part of the video cast. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes, I'm James Vickers up until quite recently. I was the director of the video cast. Yes, I'm James Fickers. |
| 1:11.6 | Up until quite recently, I was the director of the Wicking Dementia Research and Education |
| 1:15.6 | Centre at the University of Tasmania. |
| 1:18.6 | Briefly, my background is actually as a neuroscientist. |
| 1:21.6 | There's a bit of psychology thrown in there, but about 17, 18 years or so ago, we started the Wicking Dementia Center |
| 1:29.8 | in collaboration with my great colleague, Professor Andrew Robinson. And from there, we've developed |
| 1:35.4 | a number of different programs really focused around particular areas of education and research |
| 1:39.9 | related to dementia. Wonderful. How many years were you overseeing at the Wicking Institute? |
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