AAG Queensland Presents:
Healthy Ageing in the Torres Strait
in collaboration with:
We plan to record this event and make that recording
available to all registrants subsequently
If you can't make it on the day we encourage you to register
anyway so that you receive that link
Access to the recording in our video library will be
restricted to AAG members and webinar registrants
This webinar will provide an overview of HART’s more than two-decade long research work in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area. This research has focused on addressing clinical priorities identified by the team and local communities through their clinical work providing geriatric services in the region. The team have conducted a dementia prevalence study; identified specific dementia risk factors; developed a framework for ageing well; and developed and validated culturally appropriate screening tools. The team are now implementing a pilot multimodal program to address high rates of mild cognitive impairment in the region. This program has been co-designed with communities to be culturally appropriate and acceptable.
Register for this event and:
- Learn about how cultural determinants of health positively influence ageing well
- Consider how assessment tools may be ineffective if not sensitive to local cultural needs
- Understand specific risks for dementia in people living in the Torres Strait
Hear from our speakers:
Professor Eddy Strivens AM
Regional geriatrician and lead of the Healthy Ageing Research Team
Eddy Strivens is a Geriatrician within the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service and Professor with James Cook University, leading HART. He is the former Clinical Director in Cairns, establishing integrated community and sub-acute models of care, and former President of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. His clinical research interests include Successful Ageing and Dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities and Models of Integrative Service Delivery. Eddy was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for significant service to geriatric medicine and to professional organisations.
Sarah Russell
Clinical neuropsychologist
HART research portfolio manager
Sarah Russell is a Sarah Russell is a clinical neuropsychologist with over 20-years experience working in the public system and in private practice. She was instrumental in establishing a neuropsychology service within the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Service (Queensland Health) memory clinic and rehabilitation services. She continues to provide neuropsychology services to the Torres Strait as part of the geriatric outreach service. She is a founding member of HART and works across all of HART’s projects.
Dr Rachel Quigley
Advanced physiotherapist
HART research portfolio manager
Rachel Quigley is a physiotherapist working in the field of gerontology for over 20 years. She holds a clinical role in Cairns Hospital, as the Older Persons Liaison Advanced Clinician and provides geriatric outreach services to the Torres Strait. Rachel is a founding member of HART and has recently completed her PhD which developed a framework of healthy ageing for the Torres Strait. She works across all of HART’s projects.
Facilitated by:
Dr Kris Tulloch
Senior Lecturer
University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Kristen Tulloch is a senior lecturer in psychology at UniSC in the School of Health.
Kris’ research is strongly influenced by positive psychology, or the investigation of positive functioning and strength-based approaches, working with individuals’ values to optimise wellbeing, life satisfaction and performance in pursuits meaningful to the individual. In practice, she has investigated ways to build students’ self-efficacy prior to undertaking clinical placement at university, and the ways in which student bias against older people can be reduced via research engagement. She has contributed to teams applying family-centred care in audiology, and ways in which evaluations of thought can influence behaviour.