Communication support needs in aged care: Impacts on care quality and service delivery

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10-minute presentations
Friday, June 26, 2026
2:45 PM - 2:55 PM
Knowledge Hub | Central Room B, Ground Floor

Overview

Dr Michelle King

Details

⏫ Rapid oral presentation
⏲️ 2:45–2:55 pm
⌛ 10-minutes
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)

Presenter

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Dr Michelle King
Qarc, University Of Queensland

Communication support needs in aged care: Impacts on care quality and service delivery

2:45 PM - 2:55 PM

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Dr Michelle King is a sociologist and lawyer: her research focuses on decision-making, and how law works in practice for people with disabilities and other impairments to their legal capacity. Michelle is a Research Fellow at the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre (SHRS) at the University of Queensland, researching communication and decision-making in health and aged care.
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Assoc Professor Sarah Wallace
The University Of Queensland

Communication support needs in aged care: Impacts on care quality and service delivery

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

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A/Professor Sarah Wallace is a two-time NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (2020-24; 2025-29) and Certified Practising Speech Pathologist. Her research interests include communication disability in ageing and enabling and measuring meaningful change in post-stroke aphasia (language/communication impairment). Sarah uses qualitative and participatory methods to understand the lived experience of communication disability. She works in partnership with people with lived experience, clinicians and community members to co-produce interventions, systems and standards that improve quality of care and outcomes.

Session chair

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Dai Pu
Monash University & Little Birds Allied Health

Student volunteer(s)

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Sharene Min Min Chia

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Yakufu Dilinuer

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