Journal Articles
Brooks, Deborah, Sriram, Deepa, Burley, Claire V., Brimelow, Rachel and Dissanayaka, Nadeeka N. (2025). "We have a behaviour support plan, let's have a mental health support plan": Perspectives of staff, residents and family carers on understanding, responding to and promoting the mental health of residents within long-term care. Dementia 14713012251334170, 1-19. doi: 10.1177/14713012251334170
Brimelow, Rachel E., Thangavelu, Karthick, Beattie, Romana and Dissanayaka, Nadeeka N. (2021). Feasibility of group-based multiple virtual reality sessions to reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms in persons living in residential aged care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23 (5), 831-837.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.07.026
Brimelow, Rachel E., Dawe, Bronwyn and Dissanayaka, Nadeeka (2019). Preliminary Research: Virtual Reality in Residential Aged Care to reduce apathy and improve mood. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 23 (3), 165-170. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0286
Brimelow, Rachel E. (2017). Disease modifying therapies for the treatment of relapse-remitting multiple sclerosis. Nurse Prescribing, 15 (5), 222-228. doi: 10.12968/npre.2017.15.5.222
Conference Papers
Brooks, D., Burley, C., Sriram, D., Brimelow, R. and Dissanayaka, N. (2024). “It’s really important that we do have a voice.” Residents’ perspectives on the factors that promote and support mental health within aged care homes. Australian Dementia Research Forum 2024, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 3-5 June 2024.
Dissanayaka, N.N., Pacas Fronza, G., Mitchell, L., Pachana, N., Worthy, P., Byrne, G., Keramat, S.A., Comans, T., Bennett, S., Liddle, J., Chatfield, M., Broome, A., Oram, J., Appadurai, K., Beattie, E., Welsh, K., King, T., Brimelow, R., Burley, C., Pietsch, A., Brooks, D. and Au, T. (2023). New technology assisted interventions to combat anxiety and depression in dementia. Australian Dementia Research Forum 2023, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 29-31 May 2023.
Brimelow, R., Brooks, D., Burley, C., Byrne, G., Beattie, E. and Dissanayaka, N. (2021). Achieving person-centred mental health care within residential aged care: co-design of a performance measurement tool. Making person-centred care a reality. DCRC Workshop 2021, Online, 19 November 2021.
Brimelow, R., Byrne, G.J., Beattie, E. and Dissanayaka, N. (2020). Developing a quality improvement monitoring system; Mental health benchmarking tool for Residential Aged Care (MHICare). 5th Annual NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Australian Dementia Forum, Adelaide, Australia, 31 May - 2 June 2020.
Brimelow, R., Byrne, G.J., Beattie, E. and Dissanayaka, N. (2020). How do staff report and manage perceived behaviours of concern with Residential Aged Care?; An evaluation of eHealth system report logs. 5th Annual NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Australian Dementia Forum, Adelaide, Australia, 31 May - 2 June 2020.
Dissanayaka, N., Brimelow, R., Walker, N., Pachana, N. and Byrne, G. (2018). An integrative approach to management of behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia. 3rd Annual NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Australian Dementia Forum, Sydney, NSW Australia, 4 - 5 June 2018.