education and training

31 July, 2020

Inroads into rural and remote area dementia training

"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."

16 December, 2019

Leading the change in medication management

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

16 December, 2019

Change is here – amended legislation on chemical restraints in Australia

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.

30 May, 2019

Fellowship programs supporting change leaders in aged care

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.

7 May, 2019

New standards – An opportunity to improve medication use in residential aged care

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.

4 April, 2019

Dementia friendly pharmacies

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.

19 February, 2019

Dementia training on the rise

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