A Strategic Intervention Tool for dementia (the SIT Project)

Work has begun on this important project which involves researchers and aged care allied health, nursing and medical staff from the Royal Hobart Hospital. The overall aim of the SIT Project is to improve the sharing of dementia care data in Tasmania and thereby assist dementia research and better management of dementia care services. A prototype of a data collection tool has been developed and trialled in two wards of the RHH. Analyses of the results of the pilot are underway.

Planning for the next stages of the project to support research and healthcare workers is occurring.

Group Leader

Professor James Vickers , WDREC Co-Director

Contact Person

Dr Liz Cummings, Research Fellow

Research Team

Dr Christine Stirling, WDREC Senior Research Fellow

Professor Andrew Robinson, WDREC Co-Director

Dr Liz Cummings, WDREC Research Fellow

Associate Professor Paul Turner, School of Computing and Information Systems, UTAS

Internal Collaborator

Ms Philippa Cannan, School of Psychology, UTAS

External Collaborator

Mr Frank Sainsbury, ITSOIL Pty Ltd