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Associate Professor Susan Feldman
PhD
Telephone: +61 3 990 24474
Fax: +61 3 8575 2233
Email: Susan.Feldman@monash.edu
Notting Hill Campus
Bldg 1, 270 Ferntree Gully Road
Notting Hill VIC 3168
- Biography
- Recent publications
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Biography
Dr. Susan Feldman was the founding Director of The Alma Unit for Women and Ageing established in 1994 at the University of Melbourne, Australia’s first multi-disciplinary research and teaching unit dedicated to promoting an understanding of the health and wellbeing of ageing women. Through her qualitative research Susan worked extensively with older women to identify the range and nature of health and wellbeing issues facing older women including the policy, social and educational responses which would enhance the health and well being of this growing sector of society. Over the ensuing years her work has expanded to include research on gender issues across the life span for older women and men from a range of cultural backgrounds and experiences.
Her current research interests include psychosocial issues facing older women and men from multicultural backgrounds, including those that impact on physical, emotional and mental health and wellbeing. She also has a keen interest in the relationships between generations and the impact that these have on the quality of individuals, family and community. Susan has researched and written extensively about the experience of the death of a spouse on the health and wellbeing of older people and in particular widowhood and older women.
Susan has had extensive experience of planning, evaluation and direct service delivery in the community and government, undertaking program management and policy development in the health and welfare fields, particularly in the area of homelessness, the redevelopment of the major night shelters in Melbourne and family violence. .
Her books include: The Art of Ageing Well and the Art of Caring for Older Adults, Baywood Press 2007, A Certain Age: Women Growing Older, 1999 Allen & Unwin, Something that Happens to Other People 1996 Random House, and Family Violence: Everybody’s Business, Somebody’s Life. 1991, Federation Press.
Susan holds an undergraduate degree in Film Theory, Latrobe University, an MA in Psychosocial Politics, University of Melbourne and awarded a PhD from Sydney University.
She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Centre for the Study of Health and Society.
Recent publications
2007
Byles, J., Feldman, S., & Dobson, A. (2007). The Art of Ageing as Widowed Older Women in Australia. In S. Carmel, C. Morse & F. Torres Gil (Eds.), The Art of Ageing Well: Lessons from Three Nations. New York: Baywood.
Damron-Rodriguez, J., & Feldman, S. (2007). The art of making a place for older persons in society, Introduction. In S. Carmel, C. Morse & F. Torres Gil (Eds.), The Art of Ageing Well: Lessons from Three Nations. New York: Baywood Press.
Feldman, S., & Damron-Rodriguez, J. (2007). The art of adapting to health challenges with age, Introduction. In S. Carmel, C. Morse & F. Torres Gil (Eds.), The Art of Ageing Well: Lessons from Three Nations. New York: Baywood Press.
2010
Browning, C., Cowlishaw, S., Kendig, H., Thomas, S., Grayson, D., & Feldman, S. (2010). The Health And Service Needs Of Older Veterans: A Longitudinal Analysis: Analyses of the physical, mental health and service use of DVA veterans and a non-DVA comparison group: The Melbourne Longitudinal Studies on Healthy Ageing program. Melbourne: Department of Veterans Affairs
2008
Bird, S., Feldman, S., & Radermacher, H. (2008). Food For All: An assessment of the barriers to older people accessing nutritious food in Melton Shire. Melton, Victoria: RMIT University, Monash University, Melton Shire Council, and VicHealth.
Radermacher, H., Feldman, S., & Browning, C. (2008). Review of literature concerning the delivery of community aged care services to ethnic groups. Melbourne, Australia: Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria and Monash University.
2007
Bird, S., Feldman, S., Radermacher, H., Browning, C., & Thomas, S. (2007). Factors influencing the physical activity levels of older people from culturally diverse communities: An Australian experience. Shire of Melton: Brimbank City Council, Maribyrnong City Council.
2005
Ben-Moshe, D., Feldman, S., Bertone, S., Sonn, C., Zuhair, S., Martin, L., Radermacher, H., & Davidson, K. (2005). Cultural diversity and economic development in four regional Australian communities: Institute of Community Engagement and Policy Alternatives (ICEPA),.
Feldman, S., & Hanlon, C. (2005). A national study of the integration and rehabilitation of women returning from peacekeeping and peacemaking duties: Department of Veteran Affairs.
2010
Angus, J., Sims, J., Feldman, S., Radermacher, H., & Yang, H. (2010). The Effectiveness of Social Marketing for Community Awareness of Public Health Issues: Lessons for dementia risk reduction. Chinese General Practice, 13(12A), 3827-3830.
Bird, S. R., Radermacher, H., Sims, J., Feldman, S., Browning, C., & Thomas, S. (2010). Factors affecting walking activity of older people from culturally diverse groups: An Australian experience. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 13(4), 417-423.
Feldman, S. (2010). A rich bounty of culturally diverse views from research, practice and policy [Editorial Comment]. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 8(1).
Hewitt, A., Howie, L., & Feldman, S. (2010). Retirement: What will you do? A narrative inquiry of occupation-based planning for retirement: Implications for practice. The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 57(1), 8-16.
Hoff, A., Feldman, S., & Vidovicova, L. (2010). Migrant home care workers caring for older people: fictive kin, substitute, and complementary family caregivers in an ethnically diverse environment. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 5(2), 1-10.
Radermacher, H., Feldman, S., & Bird, S. (2010). Food security in older Australians from different cultural backgrounds. Journal of Nutrition, Education and Behavior, 42(5), 328-336.
2009
Angus, J., Sims, J., Feldman, S., & Radermacher, H. (2009). The effectiveness of social marketing for community awareness of public health issues: Implications for dementia-risk reduction. Chinese Journal of General Practice.
Bird, S., Kurowski, W., Feldman, S., Browning, C., Lau, R., Radermacher, H., Thomas, S., & Sims, J. (2009). The influence of the built environment and other factors on the physical activity of older women from different ethnic communities. Journal of Women and Aging, 21(1), 33-47.
Bird, S., Radermacher, H., Feldman, S., Sims, J., Kurowski, W., Browning, C., & Thomas, S. (2009). Factors in influencing the physical activity levels of older people from culturally diverse communities: An Australian experience. Ageing & Society, 29(Special Issue 08), 1275-1294.
Feldman, S. (2009). [Review of] Women in later life: Exploring race and ethnicity. Ageing & Society, 29(Special Issue 08), 1319-1321.
Feldman, S., & Howie, L. (2009). Looking back, look forward: Reflections on using a life history review tool with older people. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 28(5), 621-637.
Radermacher, H., Feldman, S., & Browning, C. (2009). Mainstream versus ethno-specific community aged care services: It's not an ‘either or'. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 28(2), 58-63.
2008
Angus, J., Sims, J., Feldman, S., & Radermacher, H. (2008). Can community-based interventions from other key national health priority areas inform strategies to reduce the risk of dementia? Chinese Journal of General Practice, 11(10A), 1725-1730.
Feldman, S. (2008). Intergenerational programmes: Towards a society for all ages, Book Review for. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 6(4), 485-487.
Feldman, S., Radermacher, H., Bird, S., Browning, C., & Thomas, S. (2008). Challenges of recruitment and retention of older people from culturally diverse backgrounds in research. Ageing & Society, 28(4), 473-493.
Radermacher, H., Feldman, S., & Bird, S. (2008). Identifying the challenges to accessing food. Published conference proceedings. Australiasian Journal on Ageing, 27(s1), 28.
Sims, J., Angus, J., Feldman, S., & Radermacher, H. (2008). Dementia's disease burden and the potential role of community-based interventions to inform risk reduction strategies. Chinese Journal of General Practice, 11(9A), 1527-1530.
2006
Byles, J., & Feldman, S. (2006). The Lives of Older Widowed Women. Just Policy, 39, 23-28.
2010
Feldman, S. (2010, April). Linking generations: Family, work and community. Presentation at the 4th International Consortium for Intergenerational Programmes (ICIP) Conference. Singapore.
Feldman, S., Browning, C., Qui, Z., Yang, H., Tohit, N., & Thomas, S. (2010, May). Conceptualisations of Healthy Ageing in Three Countries: China, Malaysia and Australia. Presentation at the International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference. Melbourne.
Hatton-Yeo, A., Bernard, M., Feldman, S., & Quake, H. (2010, May). Multigenerational Approaches to Social Inclusion and Community Cohesion. Presentation at the International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference. Melbourne.
2009
Feldman, S. (2009, October). A new era for ageing research: What's in your toolkit? Presentation at the 8th national Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing: A new era for ageing research. Melbourne
Feldman, S. (2009, July). Challenges of recruitment and retention of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in research. Presentation at the IAAG World Congress. Paris.
Feldman, S., & Hopgood, A. (2009). Widows: More than a dead man's wife: From Thesis to theatre. Paper presented at 42nd National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology, Canberra, 25-27 November 2009. Published in the Australasian Journal on Ageing, 28(2), 99.
Feldman, S., & Hopgood, A. (2009, November). More than a dead Man's Wife: Older Women's experiences of widowhood. Poster presented at the Australian Association of Gerontology. Canberra
Lowther, D., Feldman, S., & Browning, C. (2009, October). Healthy Ageing and the survival of older Marriages. Poster presented at the Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference. Melbourne.
Radermacher, H., Feldman, S., & Karunarathna, Y. (2009). Practicing positive partnerships in ethnic and multicultural aged care organisations. Paper presented at 42nd National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology, Canberra, 25-27 November 2009. Published in the Australasian Journal on Ageing, 28(2), 113.
2008
Feldman, S. (2008 September). I have lived a long time you know. Presentation at the International Sociological Association First ISA Forum of Sociology. Barcelona, Spain.
Feldman, S. (2008, September). Ageing, CALD and Gender Issues: How well are our migrant communities ageing? Presentation at the Forum Regional Information and Advocacy Council Inc. Shepparton.
Feldman, S. (2008, September). Intergenerational Programmes in Australia. Presentation at the International Sociological Association First ISA Forum of Sociology. Barcelona, Spain.
Feldman, S., Bird, S., & Radermacher, H. (2008. For All: an assessment of the barriers to older people accessing nutritious food in Melton Shire. Preparing for Change in an Ageing society. Presentation at the Brotherhood St.Lawrence seminar series. Melbourne.
Feldman, S., Radermacher, H., & Bird, S. (2008). The children will be there to help: Implications of changing family circumstances for accessing food. Paper presented at Australian Association of Gerontology Conference, Perth. Published in the Australiasian Journal on Ageing, 27(S1), 9.
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