in-demand female speaker. For over 40 years she has been working in Education, Advertising and the Communication/ Entertainment Industry. She has her entertaining, inspiring and thought provoking presentations totally captivate her audiences at national and international conferences. professionals about resilience, wellness and their contribution to others...and the results, for many attendees, have been "life-altering". the year, is an Australia Day Ambassador for the Australia Day Council and the Australian Childhood Foundation, a National Patron of Make-A-Wish Australia...and works frequently with carers, seniors, and aged care professionals. · Re-ENGAGE with your whole LIFE! Vocation/ Community...YOU! The bi-products are Leadership, Integrity and Authenticity. so you experience Possibility, Optimism and Satisfaction again. Professor of Ageing and Mental Health, Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre- Assessment and Better Care, Montefiore Chair of Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New South Wales and Consultant psychogeriatrician and Head of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. of Alzheimer's Disease International, and president of Alzheimer's Australia and Alzheimer's Australia NSW. He leads the NSW Health Dementia Policy Team which developed the 2010-2015 NSW Framework for Dementia Services and is President- Elect of the International Psychogeriatric Association. is on the editorial board of several journals, has been the recipient of a number of awards and is a member of several key state and national committees in Australia concerned with dementia and mental health in older people. These currently include the Commonwealth Government Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research (the McKeon Review) and the Aged Care Reform Implementation Council. lie in the fields of dementia caregivers, drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), nursing homes and epidemiology of cognitive health and decline. |