Award winning Aged Care nurse, Perri Waddell is a migrant, hospital trained nurse who has called Australia home for the past 22 years. She has committed herself to role modeling aged care as a nursing career pathway. Perri holds a Masters in Clinical Nursing~Gerontology (ECU), Bachelor of Dementia (UTAS) and Post Graduate Certificate in Infection Control (Griffith). Perri is a credentialled IPC- Primary and contracted facilitator for ACIPC’s FIPC course and has facilitated over 700 students through the FIPC course. Perri is a Clinical Aged Care Manager in residential care in a very remote desert community in Western Australia. Perri recognises the challenges aged care IPC leads face when driving best practice from the front line, especially when supporting people living with dementia.