Colleen Cartwright PhD (UQ), MPH (UQ), B Soc Wk (Hons) (UQ), ADA (Drama) (NRCAE) Professor Colleen Cartwright is Foundation Professor of Aged Services and Director of the Aged Services Learning and Research Centre (ASLaRC) at Southern Cross University. She holds the BCU Neville Spear Chair in Aged Services and is developing an exciting program of work that includes a portfolio of research relevant to older people in rural and regional areas of Australia, as well as having national and international significance. ASLaRC’s education focus incorporates professional development, undergraduate and postgraduate education and community forums. Professor Cartwright has extensive teaching and research experience in ageing, ethics and medical decisions at the end of life, at national and international levels, including leading the Australian component of an international study with 6 European countries into medical decisions at the end of life. She has published widely, with articles in major journals, many research reports and a number of book chapters. Professor Cartwright also provides consultancy on older people's issues to local, state and national government departments and agencies. Prior to her appointment with Southern Cross University, Professor Cartwright was Senior Research Fellow in the Australasian Centre on Ageing at the University of Queensland and the Academic Unit in Geriatric Medicine at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. She assisted with the development and implementation of the Queensland Powers of Attorney Act (1998) and designed the Advance Health Directive and Enduring Power of Attorney documents in use under that legislation.
Journal articles
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...
Advance care planning in Australia: challenges of a federal legislative system, Progress in Palliative Care (2007)
There is increasing attention in Australia and internationally on advance care planning (ACP), a process...
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 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)
Increased choice: challenges ahead for residential care (with M J. Clark and Margaret A. Steinberg), The challenges of choice and change: 9th Annual Conference of Aged Care Australia (1996)
Theses
Factors impacting on the lives of terminally ill older people, and requests for euthanasia, PhD thesis, University of Queensland, Aged Services Learning and Research Centre Papers (2003)