Funding Success – World Class Research Project Grants
Professor of Nursing at UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), Professor Lynn Chenoweth, has been awarded $600,000 as one of five World Class Research Project Grants by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC).
Her project will address the fact that hospital care of people living with dementia is complicated and challenges staff to meet the needs of each individual.
Professor Chenoweth, who is also Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Notre Dame Australia and School of Nursing, Macau, China, says that “people living with dementia can have particularly difficult experiences including agitation, delirium and falls, in busy and unfamiliar hospital environments.
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