Partnership Centre: Dealing with Cognitive and Related Functional Decline in Older People [ 2013 - 2019 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Prof Susan Kurrle (Principal investigator) ,  A/Pr Craig Whitehead ,  A/Pr Michael Bird ,  A/Pr Tracy Comans ,  Prof Constance Pond
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Brief description The focus of this Partnership Centre is how to better apply our existing knowledge and how to create new knowledge that will directly improve support to those elderly suffering from cognitive decline, their carer’s (formal and informal) and the various agencies delivering services for them. This Partnership Centre’s Investigator Team will engage in a range of activities to improve aged care service planning (including continuity of care and risk assessments of community care); develop and implement new approaches to support informal carer’s; reduce stigma around cognitive decline in both the health care and community context; improve the size and quality of the aged care workforce; assist with decision making, rights, citizenship and related ethics through education; improve aged care regulation; promote responsible medication management; develop and disseminate up-to-date clinical guidelines; and implement proven models of care.

Funding Amount $AUD 12,500,000.00

Funding Scheme Partnerships

Notes Partnership Centre for Better Health