Research Project
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)
Key Research Areas
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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
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
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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2022
Sunbeam Program Reduces Rate of Falls in Long-Term Care Residents With Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: Subgroup Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
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2022
The association between white matter hyperintensity volume and cognitive/physical decline in older people with dementia: A one-year longitudinal study
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2021, 31 Mar
Tailored Exercise and Home Hazard Reduction Program for Fall Prevention in Older People With Cognitive Impairment: The i-FOCIS Randomized Controlled Trial
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa241
2021
Cognitive Domain Associations with Balance Performance in Community-Dwelling Older People with Cognitive Impairment
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