Professor Colleen Cartwright PhD (UQ), MPH (UQ), B Soc Wk (Hons) (UQ), ADA (Drama) (NRCAE). Professor Cartwright is Foundation Professor of Aged Services and Director of the ASLaRC Aged Services Unit at Southern Cross University. Her work encompasses ageing issues in areas as diverse as the challenges of an ageing population, affordable housing for older people, older workers and end-of-life issues. She has extensive teaching and research experience in ageing, ethics and medical decisions at the end of life, at national and international levels, with publications in major journals and a number of book chapters. Professor Cartwright designed the Advance Health Directive and Enduring Power of Attorney forms that are part of the Queensland Powers of Attorney Act (1998), and adapted the Qld Advance Directive to meet NSW legislative provisions. She regularly runs information and training sessions for community and health professional groups on ethical and legal issues relating to care at the end of life, including pain relief as a human right, advance care planning, informed consent and capacity, issues for carers and the special challenges of caring for people with dementia. She has been a member of the Australian Association of Gerontology for more than 20 years.
Journal articles
Test–retest reliability of the soleus H-reflex is affected by joint positions and muscle force levels (with Yungsheng Chen, Shi Zhou, Zachary Crowley, Robert Baglin, and Fang Wang), Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology (2009)
The purpose of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability of the soleus (SOL)...
Evaluation of a project to raise community awareness of suicide risk among older men (with Helen Bartlett and Catherine Travers), Journal of Mental Health (2008)
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a population-based strategy designed to raise awareness in the...
Impact of specialty on attitudes of Australian medical practitioners to end-of-life decisions (with Malcolm H. Parker and Gail M. Williams), Medical Journal of Australia (2008)
Objective: To compare attitudes and practices of Australian medical practitioners, by specialty, to a range...
Influence of physicians' life-stance on attitudes towards end-of-life decisions and actual end-of-life decision-making in six countries (with Joachim Cohen, J van Delden, Freddy Mortier, Rurik Lofmark, Michael Norup, Karin Faisst, C Canova, and J Bilsen), Journal of Medical Ethics (2008)
Aim: To examine how physicians’ life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their...
Physicians' experiences with end-of-life decision-making: Survey in 6 European countries and Australia (with Rurik Lofmark, Tore Nilstun, Susanne Fischer, Agnes van der Heide, Freddy Mortier, Michael Norup, Lorenzo Simonato, and Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen), BMC Medicine (2008)
Background: In this study we investigated (a) to what extent physicians have experience with performing...
Books and Reports
A multi-disciplinary approach to advance care planning: pilot study report (with J Phillips and J Rodwell), Aged Services Learning and Research Centre Papers (2006)
Investigating models of affordable housing for older people and people with disabilities in the mid north coast region of New South Wales, Aged Services Learning and Research Centre Papers (2006)
Medical decisions at the end of life: attitudes and practices of Australian medical practitioners (with Gail M. Williams, Malcolm H. Parker, and Margaret A. Steinberg), Report to the National Health and Medical Research Council, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland (2006)
Cross-government project to address social isolation among older people: evaluation report (with Helen Bartlett), Aged Services Learning and Research Centre Papers (2004)
Community and health/allied health professionals’ attitudes to euthanasia: what are the driving forces? Report to the National Health and Medical Research Council (with Gail M. Williams, Margeret A. Steinberg, and J M. Najman), Aged Services Learning and Research Centre Papers (2002)
Book chapters
Ageing, health and illness (with V Parker), Living with illness : psychosocial challenges for nursing (2005)
Mental capacity in medical practice and advance care planning: clinical, ethical and legal issues (with Malcolm H. Parker), Mental capacity: powers of attorney and advance health directives (2005)
The '60 and Better' project: creating a healthier community for older people, Healthy cities: reshaping the urban environment (1992)
Conference presentations
Test-retest reliability of the soleus H-reflex is affected by joint positions and force levels (with Yungsheng Chen, Shi Zhou, Zachary Crowley, Robert Baglin, and Fang Wang), 8th Annual Conference of the Society of Chinese Scholars on Exercise Physiology and Fitness (2009)
The H-reflex has been extensively used to exam the spinal motoneuron excitability. However, no report...
Theses
Factors impacting on the lives of terminally ill older people, and requests for euthanasia, PhD thesis, University of Queensland, PhD thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. (2003)
End-of-life decision-making and patient self-determination : a multi-stakeholder analysis, MPH Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, MPH Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. (1996)
Conference publications
Affordable rental housing for older people in Australia: What do older people want? (Presentation), Healthy ageing and longevity : third international conference, International Research Centre for Healthy Ageing and Longevity (IRCHAL) (2006)
Prevention of falls and near-falls in community-dwelling older people: a randomised trial (with Nancy M. Peel, Margaret A. Steinberg, and Gail M. Williams), Readings in Injury Prevention and Control: proceedings of the Third National Conference on Injury Prevention and Control (1999)
Attitudes of the community and health care providers to various aspects of the death debates (with Malcolm H. Parker and Margaret A. Steinberg), 10th National Bioethics Conference, March 24-25 (1996)