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Dr Kate Lawler is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Her clinical background includes work in public hospital programs including inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation and home-based rehabilitation, and in aged care settings including residential aged care and transition care – an Australian program supporting older adults after hospital admission to return to the community or enter residential aged care for the first time.

Kate completed a PhD in 2019 on the topic of family-assisted therapy for older people in transition care and continues to work on a range of projects relating to publicly funded health care for older adults. She is passionate about the rights of older people to outstanding physiotherapy care, and contributes to this through research, teaching physiotherapy students, and supporting physiotherapists to develop their skills and confidence in evidence-based practice.