Professor Vicki Goodwin MBE
Professor of Ageing and Rehabilitation and Theme Lead for Ageing Well
Expertise
Ageing and rehabilitation
Biography
Vicki is a clinical-academic physiotherapist, specialising in the care of older people, in particular falls, fractures and frailty. She is the Theme Lead for Ageing Well. She is the PPI lead for the National Priorities (Ageing, Dementia and Frailty) programme.
In 2015 she was made a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy for ‘significant contribution to the development of services for older people and contribution to the advancement of the physiotherapy profession’. She was made an MBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to physiotherapy.
Projects
- Health and social care interventions in the 80 years old and over population: an evidence and gap map
- RecoverED Study
- Maintaining Independence in People with Dementia who have had a fall: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (the Maintain study)
- A new, novel walking frame for older adults in community setting- FORWARD
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to sustain independence for older people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fracture (HFpEF) and frailty: The CHART Trial
- The FLEXI Study (FaLls EXercise Implementation)
- Rehabilitation to enable recovery from COVID-19
- PhD Project – Using mixed methods to inform our understanding of maintaining independence in older people
- Systematic review of patient-initiated appointment systems (PIAS) in secondary care for people with chronic disease
- Getting Up Following a Fall
- The University of Exeter and Care Homes Knowledge (ExCHANGE) Collaboration
- Implementation of falls prevention programmes
- ReTrain
- Patient-initiated clinics (PIC) for people with long-term conditions
- Modelling rheumatology bottlenecks to facilitate patient-initiated clinics (PIC) rollout