19 years experience in the community services sector focusing on Dementia and Aged Care, Carer Support, Team Leadership and Change Management. Amal is passionate about promoting healthy ageing and challenging society’s negative stereotypes towards older people.

Dr Cardona has more than 10 years’ experience in aged care and was one of the main researchers in the design and development of innovative tools to measure the impact of age care programs in the community. She has written extensively on issues around quality and impact of aged care and the challenges of measuring outcomes in areas such as quality of life, wellbeing and functional ability. Dr Cardona also has expertise in program design and evaluation and has worked as a lecturer for more than 8 years teaching health evaluation methods.