AAG members and thought leaders on ageing, Ms Clare Stephenson and Dr Anupam Rao, received much-deserved recognition at the recent ACT Health Annual Research Meeting #CHARM2025.
Clare received the Best Allied Health Oral Presentation award for her presentation "Co-design workshops to inform an at-home rehabilitation intervention for people with dementia," outlining the development of the SPICE at Home dementia rehabilitation program, to be piloted at Canberra Health Services and funded by the ACT Government.
The Australian Association of Gerontology Award for Best Poster Relating to Ageing was also awarded on the night to Dr Anupam Rao. Anupam was also the proud recipient of ACT Health's Human Research Ethics Award.
Special mention and shout out to AAG member, Prof Victoria Traynor, as runner-up to the AAG Best Poster award.
Pictured: Left - Dr Anupam Rao with his two awards; Centre – Ms Clare Stephenson presenting at #CHARM2025; Right – Clare receiving her award for Best Oral Presentation. Photo credits – Anupam Rao and Jennifer Weller-Newton.
Monash University has been funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to update the 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines and Principles of Care for People with Dementia.
The Dementia Guidelines Feasibility Survey is one of three key sources informing the development of guideline recommendations. The survey has been designed for clinicians and external interest holder organisations. It takes only a few minutes to complete, and your input will help shape practical, achievable, and sustainable recommendations. The survey will close Friday, 18 July 2025.
Access the survey now or contact Kelsey Price for more information at [email protected].
We congratulate AAG members, Dr Karly Bartrim and Dr Marie-Claire O'Shea and co-investigator Rhiannon Hill, on the recent publication of the research article Exploring care staff perspectives of malnutrition in residential aged care.
The study examined how care staff in residential aged care understand malnutrition and their views on the various factors affecting their ability to provide proper nutrition to residents. The practical implications highlight the necessity for enhanced training to improve staff knowledge of malnutrition and better support residents with the condition. Policy implications suggest a need to boost social support for residents to lower malnutrition risk and to strengthen care staff support by focusing on comprehensive nutrition training, in addition to allocating sufficient time for the targeted care of residents with malnutrition.
Read more on this and other current research on ageing now at the Australasian Journal on Ageing (AJA). Access to AJA is free for all financial AAG members.
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