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Bronwyn Morkham
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Bronwyn Morkham
National Director | Young People In Nursing Homes National Alliance
An experienced individual and systemic advocate, Dr Bronwyn Morkham is passionate about ending the inappropriate placement of younger disabled Australians in residential aged care.
As its National Director, Bronwyn led the Alliance’s national campaign that resulted in the first $244m Younger People in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) program to address this longstanding problem.
A leading voice for people with complex health and disability support needs, she also directed the Alliance’s groundbreaking promotion of a social insurance model for disability services that became the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
With a track record of collaboration, innovation and achievement, Bronwyn is currently working with leading dementia organisations and government policy makers to describe a system of care for people living with young onset dementia; and a “roadmap of responsibilities” that indicates what services and supports should be available at particular points along the disease pathway.
Her commitment to improving service programs’ collaborative engagement with their service users, is also part of Bronwyn’s work with family members, clinicians and a disability service provider to codesign and implement a specialist young onset dementia residential service in suburban Melbourne that will divert people with young onset dementia from placement in residential aged care.
Bronwyn has worked with state and federal governments in health and disability systems policy and practice reform and written and coauthored policy papers on the development and integration of multisystem service responses involving housing, health, mental health and disability/NDIS services.
She continues to work with state and federal jurisdictions on the systemic and policy reforms needed to realise the remaining YPIRAC Target that will see no younger person living involuntarily in residential aged care by 2025.
An experienced individual and systemic advocate, Dr Bronwyn Morkham is passionate about ending the inappropriate placement of younger disabled Australians in residential aged care.
As its National Director, Bronwyn led the Alliance’s national campaign that resulted in the first $244m Younger People in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) program to address this longstanding problem.
A leading voice for people with complex health and disability support needs, she also directed the Alliance’s groundbreaking promotion of a social insurance model for disability services that became the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
With a track record of collaboration, innovation and achievement, Bronwyn is currently working with leading dementia organisations and government policy makers to describe a system of care for people living with young onset dementia; and a “roadmap of responsibilities” that indicates what services and supports should be available at particular points along the disease pathway.
Her commitment to improving service programs’ collaborative engagement with their service users, is also part of Bronwyn’s work with family members, clinicians and a disability service provider to codesign and implement a specialist young onset dementia residential service in suburban Melbourne that will divert people with young onset dementia from placement in residential aged care.
Bronwyn has worked with state and federal governments in health and disability systems policy and practice reform and written and coauthored policy papers on the development and integration of multisystem service responses involving housing, health, mental health and disability/NDIS services.
She continues to work with state and federal jurisdictions on the systemic and policy reforms needed to realise the remaining YPIRAC Target that will see no younger person living involuntarily in residential aged care by 2025.
