Professor Rhonda Nay

Professor of Gerontic Nursing
Director, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC)
La Trobe University

Professor Nay leads the TIME for Dementia Study Centre for Victoria and Tasmania and is a Director of the Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, a specialist ageing research centre with a focus on evidence based practice. Rhonda has significant experience and expertise in Australian residential and respite care settings and sits on the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Board. Rhonda’s research interest is in supportive care environments for older people, including people with dementia. Her research focus is in the areas of staff-family relationships, sexual expression and sexuality, person-centred care and pain management. Rhonda has been a member of numerous government and professional committees including the Commonwealth Aged Care Workforce Committee and the AHCA Reference Group on Continuum of Care, the National Advisory Committee on Ageing and is an Expert Advisor to the International Council of Nurses. Rhonda has led and/or been a senior consultant on numerous research projects and a number of workforce related consultancy projects both at a State and National level; She is Regional Editor for the IJOPN and serves on other Editorial Boards. She has given over 100 major conference papers and published extensively.