Dr. Margareta Halek

Curriculum Vitae

After training as a geriatric nurse, Margareta Halek completed her studies in Nursing Science (BScN and MScN) at the Institute of Nursing Science at the Witten/Herdecke University . During her seven years of professional experience in geriatric care, Margareta Halek gained in-depth clinical expertise. Between 2001 and 2010, she was research assistant to Prof. S. Bartholomeyczik at the chair of Epidemiology and Nursing Science at the Institute of Nursing Science, Witten/Herdecke University . In addition to teaching and supervising students, she focused on research topics such as care for the elderly, requirements and needs of people after a stroke, nursing assessment instruments, care for people with dementia, challenging behaviour of people with dementia and the development of guidelines.

As part of her Ph.D., which she completed in 2010, she developed a guideline (IDA) on the understanding diagnostics of challenging behaviour of people with dementia in long-term care institutions. This guideline was literature-based and empirically tested for validity and practicability. She continues this research in her working group Care Interventions, which she is heading since 2010 at the DZNE Center in Witten. Her research also includes the entire range of psychosocial interventions, the understanding diagnostics of challenging behaviours and the assessment and improvement of quality of life of those affected. Her research interest also includes integrating the care complexity and individuality of people with dementia into the research design as well as the development of appropriate outcomes and their measuring instruments.