Global Utilities

La Trobe University
John Richards Initiative

Staff profile

Mary Taylor
Ms Mary Taylor

PhD Student
Phone: +61 (0)2 6024 9602
Email: mary.taylor@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)

Professional involvement

  • Membership of Australian Association Social Workers
  • Membership of Australian Association of Gerontology

Biography

  • Mary has worked and managed in the social work field – in schools, generalist and relationship counseling, case management and trauma.
  • Research interests encompass rurality, ageing, life history/narrative work and end of life issues.

Research Title

Life Review and Advanced Care Planning in Rural Communities

A study investigating the feasibility of an intervention linking the telling of life stories with a discussion about future advanced care planning and end of life care in rural communities with competent elderly individuals.

Supervised by: Professor Annette Street, Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr Guinever Threlkeld, Director of Health Sciences Albury-Wodonga, and Dr Jeanine Blackford, Palliative Care Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences.