In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Professor Nancy Pachana about healthy ageing, finding purpose and well-being in later life, and navigating the transition into retirement.
Professor Nancy A. Pachana is a clinical geropsychologist, neuropsychologist and Professor of Clinical Geropsychology in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. She is Program Lead of the Age Friendly University Initiative at UQ and co-director of the UQ Ageing Mind Initiative, a focal point for clinical and translational ageing research at UQ. She has an international reputation in geriatric mental health, particularly for her research on late-life anxiety disorders.
Nancy is co-developer of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory, a brief self-report measure in wide clinical and research use around the world and translated into more than two dozen languages. She has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books on ageing, and has been awarded more than $25 million in competitive research funding, mainly in dementia and mental health in later life.
Her research interests include anxiety in later life, psychological interventions for people with Parkinson’s disease, nursing home interventions, assistance animals in later life, older adults and environmental sustainability, healthy ageing and retirement, driving safety and dementia, teaching and learning in psychogeriatrics, and mental health policy and ageing.
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