Grace Mary Parbery OAM (23 September 1913 – 15 March 1993) was an Australian social worker who mainly operated in New South Wales.
She studied to become an almoner (medical social worker) at the University of Sydney (Cert.Soc.Stud., 1939) while working at the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children, located in Redfern.
Parbery worked for the Australian Red Cross Society during World War II gaining experience in mental health care.
[3] Parbery worked with geriatrician Richard Gibson in the Hunter Region during the 1950s, specialising in the care of people with multiple sclerosis and the aged with a disability.
Parbery's social work was crucial in establishing this innovative geriatric service (also known as the ‘Newcastle Experience’), an approach to domiciliary care that influenced practices in Australia and around the world.