Geriatrics Nursing and Palliative Care

Biography

Charmaine Attard achieved a BSc in Nursing in 1994 and went on to read an MSc in Nursing with the University of Manchester in 2006 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration with the University of Leicester in 2016. After graduating she worked for a number of years in the acute areas of care within St. Luke’s Hospital and Capua Palace Hospital. In 1999 she went on into long term care, where she managed a private home for the elderly. In 2006 she went on to become Operations Manager and in 2009 left long term care and took up the post of Director of Nursing and Midwifery at Mater Dei Hospital wherein 2013 she was given the post of Director of Care at Karin Grech Rehabilitation hospital. In 2015 Attard joined AX Holdings as Director of Care of Hilltop Gardens overseeing care given both in the care home and in the apartments. She is currently the general manager of Hilltop Gardens, an appointment given to her in 2017. She also holds a part-time assistant senior lecturer post at the University of Malta where she teaches nursing students within the Faculty of Health sciences.

Research Interest

Nursing, Elderly Care, Palliative & Hospice Care