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Morag Taylor
Current Appointments
Senior Postdoctoral Research FellowKey Research Areas
Dr Morag Taylor is a Senior Postdoctoral 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 has 27 publications. Morag is a physiotherapist with extensive experience working in Aged Care Rehabilitation, as well as the Falls, Balance and Bone Health clinic.
Publications
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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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
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2021
Cognitive Domain Associations with Balance Performance in Community-Dwelling Older People with Cognitive Impairment
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2021
Implementation of the StandingTall programme to prevent falls in older people: A process evaluation protocol
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2021
Risk factors for falls in older people with cognitive impairment living in the community: Systematic review and meta-analysis
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2021
Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Functions Contribute to the Prediction of Falls in Old Age and Neurologic Disorders: An Observational Study
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