Claire Burley

Postdoctoral Fellow at UNSW's Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing developing non-drug interventions for dementia. Leads NHMRC-funded hospital care improvement project and exercise physiology programs for chronic conditions.

Interventions: 1) Person-centered hospital care models reducing neuropsychiatric symptoms 2) Robotic hand orthoses for spasticity 3) Exercise strategies for osteoarthritis/dementia risk reduction.

Research Impact: Systematic reviews established cost-effectiveness of nonpharmacological approaches; clinical trials test assistive technologies in home settings.

Education: Develops curricula integrating dementia research into exercise physiology training and co-designs tools for aged care mental health benchmarking.