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G'day, everyone! My name is Tracey and I'm a University Innovation Fellow. I'm originally from Australia, but currently live in the US [[File:2019. Headshot.jpg|thumb|2019. Headshot.jpg]]with my American husband and have gone back to school for a second time to get a degree in Interior Architecture and Design. I was a teacher for seven years and taught in Australia, Japan and London before settling down in beautiful Fort Collins, CO.&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial;">After I graduate I am really interested in designing aged-care facilities for people suffering from Dementia and Alzheimer's.&nbsp; A mentor told me her personal design story regarding an old woman with Alzheimer’s who would forget to eat. The poor old woman would have to be tube-fed every few days to keep her alive, which was terribly distressing for the patient, the patient’s family and the staff. My interests include all things related to mentor said that she thought research-based designcould alleviate this problem, readingso she designed a central kitchen where patients could roll up in their wheelchairs and see, yoga smell and bicycling around town with my husbandhear their food being prepared. This sensory information - sights, sounds, smells - triggered memories and old habits. My mentor said that within a week of the kitchen being completed the old woman was feeding herself again and no longer needed to be tube-fed.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span>