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Medical University of Graz

Sen. Scient. Dr.in Sandra Schüssler is a nursing scientist, senior scientist and head of the TechCare Lab research group at the Medical University of Graz. The TechCare Lab aims to co-develop, further develop and test (new) technologies (e.g. social robots, virtual reality) for the healthcare sector in multidisciplinary collaboration. A special, but not sole focus of the research group is on the target group of persons with cognitive impairments, such as dementia and their care problems (e.g. malnutrition).  

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PH Styria

Mag.a Dr.in Brigitte Pleyer works at the Institute for Secondary Vocational Education in the Nutrition Department of the University of Teacher Education Styria in Graz (https://www.phst.at/ausbildung/studienangebot/sekundarstufe-berufsbildung/bachelor-sekundarstufe-bb/ernaehrung/) as a lecturer and nutrition scientist. She completed her teacher training and doctorate at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Vienna. Afterwards, she worked for many years in nutrition prevention and co-authored the reference book "Nutrition in old age" with Alexandra Raidl. As of the academic year 2019/2020, she established "Nutritional Geragogy" for the nutrition subject area of the secondary vocational education teacher training programme at the University of Teacher Education. Her focus in research and teaching is the subject-didactic implementation of nutritional science content also on nutritional-geragogical topics. Since 22.02.2022, an iMooX course on the topic of "Eating pleasure in old age - nutritional geragogy supported" is freely available: https://imoox.at/course/ernge

FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences

Wolfgang Staubmann, BSc MSc works as a dietician & lecturer (FH) at the Institute of Dietetics and Nutrition at FH JOANNEUM. and his research focuses on the following areas: Working on ways to promote enjoyment and provide adequate nutritional care for older people with altered sensory perceptions such as taste and smell; working on issues of healthy ageing in the context of nutrition, integrated into the Health Perception Lab research laboratory. He completed his training as a dietician in 2012 and has been working at FH JOANNEUM since 2013. In addition to freelance consulting work, he completed the Master of Science in Health and Nutrition at University College Dublin in 2016. He teaches in various master's and continuing education courses in Styria. As part of his research activities, he worked on projects such as SCOBES-AR, FABELHAFT , DAMIA - Der alte Mensch is(s)t anders , Genussbroschüre Ernährung im Alter and others.

Manuela Hatz, MEd is a dietician and lecturer (FH) at the Institute of Dietetics and Nutrition at FH JOANNEUM with a focus on nutrition counselling & communication, healthy ageing, didactic concepts, new media & media work in the field of teaching and research. After training as a dietician in 1998, she worked in various professional fields, including the neurological rehabilitation sector and the development of obesity therapy concepts. In addition, she completed her Master's degree in health education in 2015 and has since been teaching at other universities/training institutions, such as the PH Steiermark, in addition to FH JOANNEUM. In addition, she has been working as a freelancer for many years, providing clients with individual nutritional therapies. As part of her work in the EUTIP and FABELHAFT projects, among others, she has dealt intensively with aspects of Healthy Ageing.

Eva Maria Resinger, BA BSc is a speech therapist, linguist & university lecturer (FH) at the Institute of Logopedics at FH JOANNEUM. Her teaching and research activities focus on neurology and geriatrics. Here she deals specifically with the topics of neurologically caused swallowing, speech and language disorders as well as linguistics. Eva Resinger completed her linguistics studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz in 2011 and her speech therapy studies at FH JOANNEUM in Graz in 2014. From 2014 to 2017 she worked as a tutor and research assistant, and since 2017 as a lecturer at the Institute of Speech Therapy. In the context of her research activities, she worked on projects such as  SCOBES-AR, FABELHAFT as well as several speech therapy-specific projects. She also works as a speech therapist in an inpatient setting on an acute neurology ward and a geriatric ward.

Romana Eichelsberger, BSc MEd is a qualified health and nursing care worker and nursing educator/lecturer (FH) with teaching and research focuses on geriatrics and simulation-based teaching at the Institute of Health Care and Nursing at FH JOANNEUM.  She was able to deepen her practical professional expertise through several years of professional work at the Albert Schweitzer Klinik (GGZ) in the areas of long-term care, acute geriatrics/remobilisation and the Apallic Care Unit. She studied health and nursing science at the Medical University of Graz and health education at the University of Applied Sciences Carinthia. Furthermore, as a Practitioner in Medical Simulation, she deepened her knowledge in simulation-based teaching in health care and nursing and was significantly involved in the development of the study programme and the simulation centre. She is currently responsible in the study programme organisation as study year coordinator for the 2nd study year.  She is the chairperson of the Federal Working Group for Nursing Education and is involved in this area as well as in networking between theory and practice.

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FH Wiener Neustadt University of Applied sciences

Dr.in phil. Verena C. Tatzer, MSc is an occupational therapist and research associate at the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. https://www.fhwn.ac.at/en/employee/tatzer-verena https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Tatzer. Verena Tatzer completed her basic training in Baden in 2003. She gained practical experience in psychiatry and geriatrics in Vienna and completed the joint programme, the "European Master in Occupational Therapy" at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, in Denmark, at the Hogeschool of Amsterdam and the University of Brighton in 2008. In 2017 she completed her doctorate in palliative care and organisational ethics at the University of Klagenfurt. Activity and participation of people with cognitive impairment/dementia are the focus of her research. Other focal points in research and teaching are geriatrics and gerontology, occupational therapy basics and occupational science as well as narrative and participatory research methods. She is a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology and heads the section "Clinical Gerontology". She is currently leading the project "A Library for All - the Dementia-Friendly Library Wiener Neustadt" (www.fhwn.ac.at/dembib).

The MOOC was developed in cooperation with Helga Fabianits and Ulrike Selzer-Haslauer, who both teach together with Verena Tatzer in the elective subject "Occupational therapy with people with dementia and their relatives". 

Helga Fabianits has been working as an occupational therapist in the geriatric field in various settings since 1988. At the end of the 1990s, she increasingly specialised in occupational therapy work with people with dementia and worked, among other things, for 10 years on a focal ward for people with dementia. In 2012, she joined forces with two committed colleagues to form the "Ergoteam Demenz" www.ergoteam-demenz.at - a joint practice for therapy and education. She is active as a freelance lecturer and repeatedly works as an expert in various projects, for example in 2020 with "Living well with dementia in the community" www.fhwn.ac.at/dembib. As an external lecturer, she teaches at the FH Wr. Neustadt and the FH Campus Wien in the occupational therapy degree programme. On the topic of eating and dementia, she wrote an article with Edeltraud Cortolezis and Ulrike Selzer-Haslauer in the professional journal Praxis Ergotherapie.https://www.ergoteam-demenz.at/, helga.fabianits@gmail.com 

Ulrike Selzer-Haslauer has been an occupational therapist since 1984. The main focus of occupational therapy is to maintain the greatest possible independence and autonomy, the retention of valued activities and social participation. She has many years of experience in the field of geriatrics in different settings - both employed and freelance. Since 2001, her focus and expertise has been in the field of dementia. She has been active for over 10 years as a lecturer at various training institutions, author of professional articles, active participant in a wide variety of projects and workshop leader in the field of "occupational therapy and dealing with people with dementia". Since 2012, she has been part of the Ergoteam Dementia group practice in Vienna, with a focus on occupational therapy and education for people with dementia and their caregivers.  

Additional training/education/experience: 

• Occupational therapy in palliative care
• Basal stimulation
• Biography work
• Courses in validation
• Dementia balance model - multiplier (https://perspektive-demenz.de/demenz-balance-modell)
• Dementia training and participation in working groups, congresses and action days, dementia-friendly communities/districts
• Teaching activities with various educational institutions
• Years of personal experience as a relative of a family member with dementia

 "You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life." (Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the hospice movement)

Natalie Sofia Horn, MA is a project manager and social scientist at Room466. She researches and works in the fields of talent management and digital learning, among others. Room466 is a newly founded R&D department of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce, which, through the implementation of national and international projects, aims to help shape the Styrian economy for the future and to support both employers and employees in their development. These projects deal with future-relevant topics such as sustainability & green economy, talent management as well as digital education and new forms of learning.

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