16 December, 2019
Kate Fulford and Andrew Stafford report on the findings from the first two years of the Dementia Training Australia Medication Management Consultancy
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16 December, 2019
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.
6 May, 2019
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.
23 October, 2018
DTA Director Andrew Stafford writes about the alarmingly high proportion of people living with dementia using antipsychotic medications
2 February, 2018
“These are important strategies to have, because we know people with dementia can spend up to 40 per cent of their bedtime hours awake.” Other DTA e-learning courses on offer...
2 February, 2018
Dementia Training Australia has launched a free online training course for aged care staff who care for people with dementia overnight.
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