Lead Organisation Alzheimer’s Australia WA
Mr David Gribble	Mr David Gribble MBA, BAppSc, DipLib, MAICD, AIMM General Manager Alzheimer’s Australia WA David has more than 25 years experience in management of non-government organisations in disability, health and aged care services across Australia. His current position with Alzheimer’s Australia WA encompasses strategic project leadership and service development for the organisation, with his major responsibilities including managing the organisation’s refocus on capacity building through evidence-based teaching and learning strategies, and the development of the Alzheimer’s Australia WA Centre of Excellence in Dementia Care at Curtin University.
Partner 1 Research Group WA
Associate Professor Chris Toye	Chris Toye Associate Professor, Older Persons’ Health Care, at Curtin University of Technology. She has an aged care nursing background and undertook post doctoral work in a palliative care setting.   Chris’s teaching background includes both inter professional care provision for people who have dementia and gerontological nursing care. She is on the management committee of the WA Dementia Training Study Centre and undertook the WA based evaluation of the Dementia Care Essentials education program (funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing [DoHA]).   Chris has a particular interest is in the provision of a palliative approach for older people with life limiting illness or frailty. She led a recent DoHA funded project to develop guidelines for a palliative approach in community aged care. Chris also had strong involvement with the DoHA funded project, led by Professor Linda Kristjanson, that developed similar guidelines for residential aged care. Her research into the support of family carers involves national and international partnerships.   Chris also works in the Centre for Nursing Research, Innovation and Quality at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. As her research at the University is often in residential aged care settings, she has a strong understanding of issues involved when older people move between health sectors.
Professor Barbara Horner	Professor Barbara Horner PhD, MEd, BAppSc, RN, FRCNA Clinical Director, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute Director Centre for Research on Ageing Curtin University of Technology   Barbara was invited to establish the Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) in 2000 and has held the position of Director since then. She also held the position of Dean of Research & Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences 2008-09. In 2010, Barbara commeced as Clinical Director, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute. This new position provides leadership for the revolutionary change in the way the University educates health care professionals with its focus on inter-professional education and collaborative industry and stakeholder partnerships.   Professor Horner's particular research interests are in models of care and service frameworks, quality of life factors in aged communities and organizational leadership and change. Her research has also expanded to care of people with dementia in partnership with Alzheimer's Australia WA. Part of the CRA portfolio includes the WA Dementia Training Study Centre and the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre - 3, Consumers & Carers.
Professor Moyez Jiwa	Professor Moyez Jiwa, qualified as a general practitioner in 1991. He has substantial clinical experience in a variety of clinical settings including rural South West Scotland, rural Nottinghamshire and urban Yorkshire, UK. He now practices in an area of need in outer metropolitan Perth, WA. He was the Director of research and development for a UK NHS hospitals Trust until 2005, serving a population of 500,000 in South Yorkshire. In 2003 Prof. Jiwa was awarded an MD from the University of Sheffield, UK. His thesis focused on the management of patients with chronic disease with particular reference to the flow of information at the interface between primary and secondary care.  Professor Jiwa was appointed the Director of the WA Centre for Cancer and Palliative care in 2006 and is now the inaugural chair of Health Innovation (chronic diseases) at Curtin University of Technology. He is the lead clinician for the primary care, cancer screening and prevention collaborative for the WA State Health Department. Professor Jiwa offers wide clinical experience, substantial academic expertise and is a recognised leader in his field. His profile is outlined at: http://www.phcris.org.au/roar/profiles.php?elibid=5150
Kristi Holloway	Ms Kristi Holloway is a PhD Candidate with the Curtin University, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute and is a registered nurse who currently coordinates a community care program for the Hall and Prior Residential Health and Aged Care Organisation. She coordinates EACH and EACH-D packages, as well as a community transitional care service. Kristi has clinical experience that spans residential and community care sectors and the transitions between these sectors. Kristi has been involved in a number of research projects related to palliative care in the context of aged care provision. In particular she managed the most recent stages of the national project developing guidelines for a palliative approach for aged care in the community setting and managed the Western Australian component of the Evidence Based Practice in Residential Care: Pain Management Project.
Partner 2 Research Group Tasmania
Andrew Robinson	Andrew Robinson is Professor of Aged Care Nursing, School Of Nursing and Midwifery, Co-Director, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre (WDREC), Menzies Research Institute and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Tasmania. Andrew has established a thriving multi-disciplinary aged care research program in Tasmania with collaborators in the UTAS Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Psychology, Information Systems and Rural Health, as well as a range of Tasmanian acute care, residential aged care and community based service providers and interstate colleagues. As Co-Director of WDREC, Andrew oversees projects that span health services, clinical and biomedical research, and education and workforce capacity, to tackle the leading issues related to the increasing numbers of people with dementia.
Sharon Andrews	Sharon Andrews works as a researcher with the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania. She is a registered nurse with a clinical background in aged care and palliative care practice. Sharon’s key area of expertise is in action research and practice development for staff in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), particularly with a focus on dementia and palliative care. Her PhD investigated strategies that were effective in developing the practices of aged care staff to support evidence based palliative approach to care for people with advanced dementia and will be submitted mid 2010.   Sharon currently coordinates a project that has a focus on improving communication and practice in advance and end of life care planning for people with dementia in RACFs as well as a chief investigator on another study exploring communication and information needs of aged care staff and family caregivers in the provision of care for people with moderate to severe dementia in RACFs. Sharon has previously consulted in a best practice falls prevention project, funded by the DOHA and is involved in teaching undergraduate nursing and medical students in a subject on ageing through the School of Nursing at the University of Tasmania.
Fran McInerney	Fran is a registered nurse and a sociologist. She holds postgraduate qualifications in nursing, education, social science, and public health. her research interests include social constructions of death and dying, the nexus between aged and palliative care, health workers in aged care and palliative contexts, dementia care, and qualitative research methodologies.
Jennifer Abbey	Professor Jenny Abbey was Foundation Director of one of the three National Dementia Collaborative Research Centres established under the Australian Government’s National Dementia Initiative  and was Queensland’s first Professor of Nursing (Aged Care) holding a joint appointment between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Prince Charles Hospital.   She is the author of the Abbey Pain Scale, the pain scale most widely used in Australian Residential Care facilities to assess pain for people with dementia who are unable to verbalise their needs in a meaningful way. Most of her research work has been in relation to the particular palliative care needs of people with dementia. Jenny now sits on the national Ministerial Dementia Advisory Committee, the South Australian Guardianship Board, consults to the aged care industry and holds adjunct academic positions in Brisbane, Hobart and Adelaide.
Michael Ashby
Partner 3 Alzheimer's Aust Tasmania
Ms Debbie Slater	Ms Debbie Slater Executive Director Alzheimer’s Australia Tasmania
Project Team
Jan Akers	Janine (Jan) Akers Project Manager Email - J.akers@curtin.edu.au Phone (08) 9266 2057 Available Tues – Fri 9am - 5pm Jan is a registered nurse and a social worker with an interest in older adults’ mental health and advocacy, palliative care and advanced care planning, and orthopaedics.   Jan has worked as a clinical nurse in residential aged care and has recent clinical experience as a clinical nurse coordinator in the acute public hospital sector, with a graduate certificate in orthopaedics. The interface between residential aged care facilities and hospitals is an area of particular interest.   Having qualified as a social worker, Jan further explored this interest through her work within a GP division of practice, as advanced care directives project officer. The role required discussions with residential aged care facility staff and tertiary hospital emergency department staff, on how to address the issue of inter-sector collaboration and communication.
Alison Clark	Alison Clark Administration Assistant Email - Alison.Clark@curtin.edu.au Available Tues 8am – 4pm
Aurora Popescu	Aurora Popescu Research Assistant Email - A.Popescu@curtin.edu.au Phone (08) 9266 2216 Available Tues & Wed 9am – 5pm
Brigit Stratton	Brigit Stratton (Tas) Project Officer Brigit Stratton is project officer in the CoP D1 study and a research fellow with Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania. As a registered nurse Brigit primarily cared for patients in the operating theatre and/or recovery room. Her research experience is in day surgery and endoscopy, and in improving the delivery of care to older adults in such contexts. Dr Stratton is a keen advocate for change and improvement to the provision of care to older people through best practice, inter-professional and consumer collaboration, and participatory action research.