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Department of Medicine - Staff

Dr A. (Sally) M. Keeling
BA(hons) PhD(Otago)

Department of Medicine
University of Otago, Christchurch
The Princess Margaret Hospital
P.O.Box 800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Email: sally.keeling@otago.ac.nz

Current Roles

  • Senior Lecturer
  • President, New Zealand Association of Gerontology, Canterbury Branch
  • 2007-2009, Director, New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing, Victoria University of Wellington (see http://www.victoria.ac.nz/nzira/)

Research Interests

  • Social context of ageing in NZ
  • Comprehensive geriatric assessment
  • Service developments in Older Person’s Health
  • Medical anthropology
  • Anthropology of ageing
  • Public Policy and Ageing in New Zealand

Top 10 Publications

  • Wiles, J.,Allen, R., Kerse,N., Palmer, A., Keeling, S. and Hayman,K. (2008).Older people and their social spaces: a study of attachment to place in Aotearoa New Zealand. in press Social Science and Medicine.
  • Keeling, S. and Davey, J.(2008) Working carers in New Zealand: Zones of Care and Contested Boundaries, in Martin-Matthews A and Phillips J.(eds), Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the boundaries. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/ Taylor and Francis Group, NY/London. 129-146.
  • Hambleton, P., Keeling, S. and McKenzie M. (2008) Quality of life is…:The Views of Older Recipients of Low Level Home Support Social Policy Journal of New Zealand Vol.33: 146-162
  • Keeling, S., Glasgow,K. and Morris, C. (2008) Grandparents in rural families: young people’s perspectives. Blue Skies Report, No 24/08, Families Commission. http://www.familiescommission.govt.nz/files/blue-skies-keely-glasgow-morris.pdf.pdf
  • Roud, H., Keeling, S., & Sainsbury, R. (2006). Using the COPE assessment tool with informal carers of people with dementia in New Zealand. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 119(1237). http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/119-1237/2053/
  • Schofield, V., Davey, J. A., Keeling, S., & Parsons, M. (2006). Ageing in place. In J. Boston & J. A. Davey (Eds.), Implications of population ageing: Opportunities and risks (pp. 275-306). Wellington, New Zealand: Institute of Policy Studies.
  • Keeling, S., Larkins, B. and Millar, N. (2005).Changing assessment processes in Older Person’s Health: Some Canterbury Tales New Zealand Family Physician, Vol. 32, No 4, pp 234-237
  • 2003: New Zealand Guidelines Group Assessment Processes for Older People: Best Practice Evidence Based Guideline, available on www.nzgg.org.nz (Keeling, S.- Convenor)
  • Keeling, S. 2003. "Mystories from a public ethnography of ageing and later life" Special Edition, Medical Anthropology - Tales from the Antipodes in SITES , Guest eds, J.Park and R.Fitzgerald, Vol.1, No.1, 186-209
  • Keeling, S. 2001. “Relative Distance: ageing in rural New Zealand”, Ageing and Society, Vol 21, Pt 5, September: 605-619.

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