DTA News Room

Dementia friendly pharmacies

04 Apr 2019
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.
Dementia Friendly Pharmacies, Media Release, DTA

Dementia training on the rise

19 Feb 2019
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 Education and Training, DTA

A new paradigm is on the horizon

21 Sep 2018
Earlier this month, aged care provider Warrigal was named Provider of the Year in the Aged and Community Services Australia National Aged Care award. Warrigal was recognised for its workplace...
dementia a new paradigm is on the horizon

Music & Memory

26 Aug 2018
A program which uses personalised music playlists to help individuals living with dementia, chronic cognitive and physical impairments to reconnect with family, friends and carers.
Music and Memory Program Dementia

Getting the temperature just right

17 Aug 2018
New research on the impact of temperature on people living with dementia, supervised by DTA Executive Director Richard Fleming and published in the Conversation.
lady with dementia walking with frame adjust temperature settings

Desert Rose House to bloom in Dubai

17 Aug 2018
Official opening of Australia’s first dementia-friendly, net-zero energy house, based on Dementia Training Australia design principles.
Desert Rose House, UOW

DTA case study profiled at ADI conference in Chicago

31 Jul 2018
A case study on Dementia Training Australia’s work with Scalabrini Village is profiled in the program Every Three Seconds, launched at the Alzheimer’s Disease International conference in Chicago on Saturday.
Every three seconds, Dementia documentary features DTA

Medicine student tells the story of dementia

20 Jul 2018
University of Newcastle medicine student, Tara Kannan, has been announced as a winner of this year’s National Dementia Storytelling Competition, an annual awareness initiative run by Dementia Training Australia (DTA)...
Dementia storytelling competition winner, Tara Kannan

Going beyond ‘tick the box’ training

23 May 2018
An article from the Australian Journal of Dementia Care on DTA’s first year and Tailored Training Packages (TTPs), co-authored by DTA directors.
beyond tick box training