Facilitate 2nd year Medical students on Geriatric Medicine placement in a Residential Aged Care Facility. Aim is to provide the students with an understanding of residential aged care, particularly the experience of the resident and the way care is provided.

Orthopaedics Department

Environmental Design Education Consultancy ServiceDementia Training Australia (based at the University of Wollongong)Designing for People with Dementia- education, assessment, advice- refurbishment, renovation, new projects- residential aged care, healthcare

WA Centre for Health and Ageing, School of Medicine and Pharmacology and School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.Various research activities including:• A range of research tasks for an NHMRC funded randomised controlled trials including:o Assistance with recruitment of study participantso Assistance with information sessions for potential participants and staffo Screening of potential participantso data collectiono Ongoing relationship management with participants, study sites and staffo Data cleaningo Administrative and project management tasks as required• Qualitative research tasks as required including:o Semi structured interviews for project evaluationo Thematic analysis of interviews, student research submission feedback and reportso Writing of qualitative reports for above projects

Part time/full-time research assistant working with Professor Barbara Horner in the areas of aged care services and dementia. Research projects:• Dementia Enabling Environments Project (DEEP) (Project lead: Alzheimers Australia WA)• Examination of perceived stigma in persons with progressive memory loss such as dementia: an Australian study (Project lead: Queensland University of Technology)• Environmental Design for People with Dementia – Education (Project lead: NSW/ACT Dementia Training Study Centre)• Quality of Life and Care for People with Dementia in Residential Care Facilities• Examination of perceived stigma in veterans with progressive memory loss such as dementia: an Australian study (Project lead: Queensland University of Technology)• Staff education to improve care of confused older acute medical patients (WA Centre for Health and Ageing)• TOrCCh: Towards Organisational Culture Change (WA Centre for Health and Ageing)• Proactive Primary Care for Carers of People with Dementia: a feasibility study (CHIRI)Duties included; • Undertaking literature reviews, • Research participant recruitment and consent process,• Research participant interviews and administration of questionnaires inclusive of a range of quality of life, carer burden and cognitive assessment tools (including with people living with progressive memory loss such as dementia)• writing ethics submissions and making changes/additions to ethics submissions, • Participation in developing proposals, research methods and evaluation strategies,• Establishing and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders’• Data collection and analysis, • Report writing,• Co-writing articles for publication,• Facilitating staff workshops in residential care settings.