
Real and lasting change
Dementia Training Australia helping create real and lasting change
A staff training program to help residential aged care organisations address and reduce dementia related responsive behaviours.
Of equal importance are the legibility and comfort of the person’s physical environment, the effects of psychotropic medications they have been prescribed, the extent to which their expressed preferences and needs are well understood and met, and the way that staff and family involved with the person relate to them.
These factors include, for example, those related to the progression of dementia, such as changes in the ability of the person to adequately express their own thoughts and feelings.
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Australian Journal of dementia care (AJDC)
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Elizabeth BeattiePublished
27 November, 2017 Read full articleShare
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Dementia Training Australia helping create real and lasting change
"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."