Researching Aged Care, Policy and Education Professor Lynn Chenoweth, who is one of Australia’s most eminent Professors of Nursing, has been researching aged care, health and aged care policy, and contributing to aged care nursing education and practice since 1987. CHeBA is extremely privileged to have Professor Chenoweth as part of the team, with an important outcome of her research being the potential to influence policy decisions on how best to enable and support the health, emotional and social needs of older people – including family carers and persons living with dementia. This position at CHeBA is funded by Montefiore with Professor Chenoweth gaining significant success across a number of research grants in 2021, including being awarded a DCRC (Dementia Australia) World Class Dementia Grant aimed at improving hospital care for people with dementia. Through 2021 Professor Chenoweth led a research project to improve staff response to aggression in aged care residents living with dementia. The ‘Maybo’ project has been a significant collaboration with Montefiore and CHeBA is grateful for their funding and in-kind support for research. Professor Chenoweth’s research also includes projects looking at improving health outcomes, wellbeing and care for people living with dementia in the hospital setting, carer end of life planning intervention in people living with dementia, dementia medicines and consumer priorities.
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“My hope is that my research not only provides robust evidence of the benefits of implementing safe personcentred systems of treatment and care, but that the evidence is accepted and applied across local, state and national health jurisdictions.” Professor Lynn Chenoweth
