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Research Biography
Alison is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and an academic in Nutrition and Dietetics with experience in a range of practice areas. Her teaching interests are broad covering a range of topics from general nutrition to food service, with particular interest in all things food. She is the Honours coordinator for Nutrition and Dietetics. Alison's PhD was awarded for research conducted in the area of unintentional weight loss in older adults, which remains one of her research areas of focus. Her other research interests include healthy ageing, body composition, inflammation, pain and food service. She is an active member of the Aged Care Food and Nutrition Research Team that developed the evidence-based Flinders University Food Service Satisfaction Questionnaire toolkit. Currently Alison is developing a research project to investigate nutrition in the home-based aged care setting.
Research Interests
- Body composition with a particular interest in the effects of changes in body composition with ageing
- Nutritional health of older adults
- Healthy ageing
- Role of inflammation in nutritional health
- Diet and pain
- Food service
- Tool development methodologies
Completed Supervisions
Associate Supervisions:
- Medicine (1)
- Nutrition and Dietetics (3)
Supervised Students Successes
- Mar 2019 Dr Tom Walsh - Vice-Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
- June 2023 Dr Morgan Pankhurst - HDR Student Research Impact Prize
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Supervision
- Registered
Research Areas
- Healthy ageing and aged care
- Nutrition and dietetics
Supervisory Interests
- Health and wellbeing, body compositional changes and impact
- General nutrition in health
- Healthy Ageing
- Nutritional health of older adults
- Inflammation and nutritional status
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A world-first food service satisfaction questionnaire for use with family members of nursing home residents: expanding the toolkit of valid and reliable aged care food service satisfaction questionnaires
Yaxley, A., Pankhurst, M., Morgillo, S. & Miller, M., 1 Jan 2024, In: The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging. 28, 1, 4 p., 100015.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Barriers and Enablers to a Hospital-to-Home, Combined Exercise and Nutrition, Self-Managed Program for Pre-Frail and Frail Hospitalised Older Adults
Han, C. Y., Middleton, G., Doh, J., Yaxley, A., Sharma, Y., Baldwin, C. & Miller, M., 18 Mar 2024, In: Healthcare (Switzerland). 12, 6, 17 p., 678.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pre-Frailty and Frailty in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Comparison Study in People with and without a History of Cancer in an Acute Medical Unit
Han, C. Y., Chan, R. J., Ng, H. S., Sharma, Y., Yaxley, A., Baldwin, C. & Miller, M., 2 Jun 2024, In: Cancers. 16, 12, 11 p., 2212.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Family members' experiences with the food served in residential aged care homes
Pankhurst, M., Morgillo, S., Yaxley, A. & Miller, M., 24 Jul 2023. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Individualized Hospital to Home, Exercise-Nutrition Self-Managed Intervention for Pre-Frail and Frail Hospitalized Older Adults: The INDEPENDENCE Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
Han, C. Y., Sharma, Y., Yaxley, A., Baldwin, C., Woodman, R. & Miller, M., 17 May 2023, In: Clinical Interventions in Aging. 18, p. 809-825 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile5 Citations (Scopus)95 Downloads (Pure)