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Issue: June 2006

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New research role to diagnose and manage pain

La Trobe University is also part of a new $2.2 million three-year project to establish and operate a Dementia Collaborative Centre for Consumers and Social Research.

Professor Nay

Financed by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, the new Centre links a number of research institutions, including La Trobe's Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care.

The Centre, a joint initiative with the Bundoora Extended Care Centre, will conduct research into the diagnosis and management of pain - one of five 'themes' covered by the project.

Centre Director, Professor Rhonda Nay, who also heads La Trobe's Gerontic Nursing Clinical School, said she is delighted that the University's expertise in research into dementia and Alzheimer's disease has been recognised in this way.

Research financed under the new Dementia Collaborative Centre aims to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers.

The Centre operates out of Queensland University of Technology's Kelvin Grove campus through the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, coordinating arrangements with collaborators and associates nationally and internationally.