Dr Elissa Burton is an Associate Professor at Curtin University in Western Australia. Elissa’s research focuses on helping older adults to live independently at home for as long as they choose, through healthy ageing strategies. Much of Elissa’s work has been with older adults who receive home care services, reablement or restorative care, promoting physical activity, preventing falls, and encouraging healthy older adults to participate more in strength and balance training. More recently her work has been in fall prevention for people living with mild cognitive impairment, which was part of her successful NHMRC Investigator Grant. She also works with people living with young onset dementia, their carers and people living with older age dementia and their carers. She is the Co-Domain Lead for the Dementia and Ageing Domain at Curtin University’s enAble Institute, a Fellow of the Australasian Association of Gerontology (AAG) and a member of their National Board.
At Brightwater, Elissa creates and drives research programs to advance research in brain health and healthy ageing, with a focus on Young Onset Dementia. She also aims to build capacity of the research team and increase the profile of Brightwater’s Research Centre.
