Measuring Quality of Life in Dementia

Associate Professor Tracy Comans, Dr Kim Nguyen, Dr Sanjeewa Kularatne, Professor Wendy Moyle  have been awarded $518,238 from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre to develop a preference based measure to value quality of life for people with a diagnosis of dementia or cognitive decline. They will use interdisciplinary expertise of consumers, policy makers and researchers. The team will work in partnership with Prof Kurrle from the University of Sydney, Prof Ratcliffe from Flinders University, Dr Rowen from University of Sheffield, UK, Brendan Mulhern from University of Technology, Sydney, and Megan Corlis from Helping Hand, Adelaide.