Senior Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University; Australia

Dr Jo-Anne Rayner is a senior research fellow at the Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University. Her research focuses are: the translation of research evidence into practice; the care of older people in residential aged care, especially those with dementia; and the aged care workforce, especially the education of nurses with gerontological knowledge. Jo has extensive expertise and experience as a qualitative methods researcher and mentors junior researchers both in the higher education sector and the Department of Health. She works as part of a team that also develops online and face-to-face education for health professionals and aged care workers. She has presented at Senate (National Government) inquiries into the aged care workforce and her publications have been tabled at the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety by the Victorian Government.