Research Project
Dr
Morag Taylor
Current Appointments
Conjoint Senior Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney
Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
Associate Editor, Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Treasurer, 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)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal on Ageing (2022-2023)
Associate Editor, Australasian Journal on Ageing (2020-2022)
Key Research Areas
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Dr Morag Taylor is a Conjoint Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and Program lead and Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney. 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
2025 Jul
Core capabilities physiotherapists need to provide high quality care to people living with dementia and their caregivers
2025
A core capability framework for physiotherapists to deliver quality care when working with people living with dementia and their families/caregivers: an international modified e-Delphi study
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2025
Daily-life walking speed, running duration and bedtime from wrist-worn sensors predict incident dementia: A watch walk – UK biobank study
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2025
In their own words: older persons’ experiences of participating in co-creation
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2025
The Telephysiotherapy for Older People (TOP-UP) program for improving mobility in people receiving aged care: a hybrid type 1 effectiveness–implementation randomised controlled trial
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2025
‘Changing the Focus’: Co-Design of a Novel Approach for Engaging People with Dementia in Physical Activity
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2024, 06 Aug
Implementation of a digital exercise programme in health services to prevent falls in older people
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae173
2024
Adherence to clinical care standards and mortality after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2015–2018: a retrospective population-based study
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2024
Changing the focus: Facilitating engagement in physical activity for people living with mild dementia in a local community—Protocol for a pre-post mixed methods feasibility study
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2024
Cognitive and physical declines and falls in older people with and without mild cognitive impairment: a 7-year longitudinal study
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