Tom Arie Explained

Tom Arie
Birth Date:9 August 1933
Birth Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Death Place:Norfolk, England
Nationality:British
Education:Reading School
Balliol College, Oxford; Maudsley Hospital; London Hospital
Occupation:Geriatric Psychiatrist
Spouse:Eleanor Arie
Children:3

Thomas Harry David Arie (9 August 1933 – 24 May 2020) was a British old age psychiatrist, described as "one of the founding fathers of old age psychiatry."[1]

Career

Arie qualified in Oxford then underwent further training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and in social medicine at the MRC Social Medicine Unit at the London Hospital.

He set up a psychiatric unit for old people at Goodmayes Hospital in 1969.[2] In a 1996 interview, he recalled:[3]

He was Foundation Professor of Health Care of the Elderly at the University of Nottingham until 1995, becoming emeritus on retirement.

He served as chair of the Old Age Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and as chair of the Geriatric Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours, for "Services to Medicine".

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seminar by Prof Tom Arie . . 26 June 2017 . 2008.
  2. The First Year's Work of the Goodmayes Psychiatric Service for Old People . Thomas . Arie . The Lancet. 1970. 2 . 7684 . 1179–1182 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(70)90357-0 . 4098447 . 42361117 .
  3. Murphy. E. . A conversation with Tom Arie . International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry . 1996 . 11 . 8 . 671–679. 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199608)11:8<671::AID-GPS462>3.0.CO;2-2 . 143453490 . cited in Web site: Snowdon . John . Establishing the RANZCP's Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age . 26 June 2017 . June 2013.