A/Professor Colm Cunningham is Director of The Dementia Centre HammondCare, with an Australian and International team of over 200 staff. The centre’s priorities are building design, understanding the causes of behaviour, life engagement, models of care and end of life care. Colm has published extensively and has over 30 years’experience in older age care. Colm is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of NSW in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and a Visiting Fellow in Dementia Design.