Title(s): Professor
Current Position/Designation: Professor of Healthy Ageing
Institutional Affiliation: The University of Sydney
Active Email Address: yun-hee.jeon@sydney.edu.au
Yun-Hee Jeon is the Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing at The University of Sydney School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is passionate about improving quality dementia care and care of older people in long-term care settings. She has led several world’s first trials in dementia care including the implementation of an interdisciplinary dementia rehabilitation model (I-HARP) designed for community dwelling older people with dementia and their family carers. Building on the success of I-HARP, she is leading a rehabilitation implementation trial in care homes, focusing on residents with cognitive impairment. She also leads pioneering work in dementia research awareness and capacity building through StepUp for Dementia Research and the University of Sydney cross disciplinary Citizen Science node both she founded in 2019 to improve public/healthcare consumer involvement in dementia, health and care research. She has published over 190 scholarly papers and delivered over 100 invited talks.
Yun-Hee has contributed to numerous national and international dementia-related initiatives including recent WHO’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (Dementia) 2023 and WHO mhGAP update (Dementia module) 2023. She was recognised as the UN Healthy Ageing 50 in 2022. With Professor Linda Clare she co-leads the 2025 World Alzheimer Report on Dementia Rehabilitation.