About Tom Arie
Lived 1933 – 2020 (aged 87). Tom Arie was a psychiatrist, geriatrician, university teacher and old Age Psychiatrist.
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."
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. In a 1996 interview, he recalled:
He was Foundation Professor of Health Care of the Elderly at the University of Nottingham until 1995, becoming emeritus on retirement.
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Who was Tom Arie?
psychiatrist
When was Tom Arie born?
Tom Arie was born on 17 January 1933 in Prague.
When did Tom Arie die?
Tom Arie died on 24 May 2020 in Norfolk.
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Tom Arie was a psychiatrist, geriatrician, university teacher and old Age Psychiatrist.
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