Delirium: Past, Present and Future
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Ms. Marnie Phillips and Mrs. Marcia Phillips
Having cared for Dad and husband, Maurice, during protracted bouts of delirium that contributed greatly to his untimely passing, Marnie and Marcia will speak about the challenges they faced as carers (and Maurice as a sufferer) through this devastating process. They will also highlight the positives and negatives of the care they received from various medical professionals and share some learnings and recommendations from the carers’ perspective. Marnie and Marcia have become passionate about increasing knowledge, awareness and understanding of delirium in the medical and general communities
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Professor Liz Sampson
Liz is professor in the Division of Psychiatry, UCL. Her research focusses on key clinical issues for frail older people. Her main areas of interest are dementia and delirium in acute hospital inpatients (epidemiology and health services research), identifying, better understanding and managing common symptoms, including pain, delirium and difficulty swallowing and using mixed methods (data, cohort studies co-design) to implement better care. She is principal investigator for the NIHR/ESRC-funded Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) research programme (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/marie-curie-palliative-care-research-department/research/centre-dementia-palliative-care). She is a consultant liaison psychiatrist at North Middlesex University Hospital
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Dr Frederick Graham (PhD, BNurs)
Fred is Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) and clinical lead of the Dementia and Delirium Nursing Service at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Brisbane. Fred is a clinical expert in managing changed behaviours and psychological symptoms in dementia and symptoms of distress in delirium. His clinical works has also involved developing, implementing staff education, cognition champions, at-the-bedside care resources and an Acute Cognition Unit. He was principal content author for Dementia Training Australia’s nationally available e-Learning package for care of hospitalised people with dementia – “The View from Here”. His recent PhD research explored whether hospital nurses recognise pain-related agitation in older cognitively impaired patients
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Professor Victoria Traynor
Victoria is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Wollongong where she has worked for the past 15 years. Her current role as Acting Head of School has required a focus on supporting students and staff to manage the impact of COVID. Victoria is the Founding Director of Aged and Dementia Health Education Research (ADHERe). The aim of their research is to contribute to the transformation of the lives of older people and family carers using the evidence-based resources they produce from their research studies. Their research adopts knowledge translation strategies and includes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Always at the centre of their research is actively engaging stakeholders to ensure the outputs have high impact for the aged care community
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Professor Alison Mudge
Alison Mudge is a physician, educator and health services researcher Based at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She works to improve the care, experience and outcomes for older people in hospital through improvement, research, knowledge translation and advocacy. She is the clinical lead for Eat Walk Engage, Queensland’s state-wide delirium prevention program
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