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Dr

Morag Taylor


Current Appointments

Research Fellow
Centre for Research Excellence in the Prevention of Fall-related Injuries Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal on Ageing Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Associate Editor, Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Executive member, Australian and New Zealand Fall Prevention Society Co-chair Early Career Sub-Committee, Australian and New Zealand Fall Prevention Society Chair, ReseArch and PractIce in Dementia (RAPID) Physiotherapists Network Co-Chair Early to Mid Career Committee, NeuRA (2020-2023) Education Sub-Committee, Early to Mid Career Committee, NeuRA (2020-2023) Project Manager, StandingTall Implementation Partnership Project (2019-2022)
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Dr Morag Taylor is a Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia. She was awarded a prestigious NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship 2016 – 2020. Currently her work is focusing on physical and cognitive function and fall/fall-injury risk and prevention in older people with dementia. She completed her PhD (Understanding fall risk in cognitively impaired older people) in 2014 (Medicine, UNSW), has presented her work nationally and internationally and published widely in peer reviewed journals. Morag is a physiotherapist with extensive experience working in Aged Care Rehabilitation, as well as the Falls, Balance and Bone Health clinic.


Publications

2024, 11 Feb

Effect of cognitive training on cognitive function in community‐dwelling older people with mild‐to‐moderate dementia: A single‐blind randomised controlled trial

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13283

2024, 25 Jan

Improving hip fracture care: A five‐year review of the early contributors to the Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13270

2023, 20 Apr

Cognitive and physical declines and falls in older people with and without mild cognitive impairment: a 7-year longitudinal study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610223000315

2023

Associations between psychotropic and anti-dementia medication use and falls in community-dwelling older adults with cognitive impairment

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2023

Physiotherapy-led telehealth and exercise intervention to improve mobility in older people receiving aged care services (TOP UP): Protocol for a randomised controlled type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial

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2022, 02 Sep

World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac205

2022

Erratum to: Tailored Exercise and Home Hazard Reduction Program for Fall Prevention in Older People With Cognitive Impairment: The i-FOCIS Randomized Controlled Trial

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2022

Preventing falls in older people with dementia

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2022

Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive, Psychological, and Physical Performance in Community-Dwelling Older People with Cognitive Impairment

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2022

Risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people with mild cognitive impairment: a prospective one-year study

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