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Dementia Training Australia (DTA) continues to develop its range of online courses with six new courses aimed at the dementia care workforce.

"The RARFT project brought DTA closer to rural and remote audiences, raising awareness of DTA as an organisation and promoting DTA’s dementia-specific services."

Kate Fulford and Andrew Stafford report on the findings from the first two years of the Dementia Training Australia Medication Management Consultancy

There is optimism that the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety can stimulate real change beyond words, writes DTA Executive Director, Professor Belinda Goodenough, for the Australian Journal...

DTA’s Medication Management Consultancy has seen as much as a 60% relative reduction in antipsychotic medications prescribed within residential aged care facilities across Australia.

On July 1, Dementia Training Australia welcomed Professor Belinda Goodenough to the role of Executive Director, taking the reins from Professor Richard Fleming.

The Fellowship programs at DTA all have a common theme – to place the wellbeing of people living with dementia at the heart of care quality.

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Responsive behaviours are experienced by many people who are living with dementia. Non-medication approaches are overwhelmingly the most appropriate and effective means of providing support.

Responsive behaviours are experienced by many people who are living with dementia. Non-medication approaches are overwhelmingly the most appropriate and effective means of providing support.

A new online course is helping pharmacists improve their dementia knowledge to the benefit of their local communities.

A new online course aims to increase dementia knowledge among community pharmacists as the health professionals most commonly visited by people living with dementia and their family carers.

DTA’s Kirsty Bennett talks about how the new Aged Care Quality Standards can facilitate better design for dementia.

The absence of minimum standards of dementia training for the aged care workforce has repeatedly been raised as a major issue affecting the care of older Australians.

A free tool to help residential aged care providers monitor and reduce the use of antipsychotic medications in facilities.

DTA has developed a tool to help aged care providers monitor their use of antipsychotic medications.

Listen as DTA Executive Director Richard Fleming talks to ABC radio about dementia training, and focusing on the person not the disease.

There is increasing demand for quality dementia training as the Australian aged care sector begins to take the citizenship of people with dementia seriously.

Dementia Training Australia helping create real and lasting change

The design of a building can change the way we engage and interact, move around, and even our mood.