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General Practitioners

GP dementia resources, training and education support Your role is crucial in the care of people with dementia. We understand and provide these resources to support you in recognising, diagnosing and managing dementia. All DTA programs reference evidence-based best practice…

Dementia training for Individuals

Dementia training and education for individuals Increase your knowledge of dementia, and make a difference at your workplace. Browse our range of dementia education and resources, designed for Australians who work with people living with dementia. How we can help…

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.

DTA Home

Explore Focus Areas Tailored Training Programsfor Organisations Create your own training schedule, specifically designed to meet your organisation’s needs. We provide flexible training across Australia in a variety of lengths and formats. Explore courses Discover our most popular courses below…

New online learning for the dementia workforce

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

Let’s CHAT Dementia Webinar Series

Series Synopsis Dementia is a rapidly growing health issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Let’s CHAT (Community Health Approaches To) Dementia is a NHMRC-funded co-design project based in 12 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services across Australia which aims…

Aged Care Quality Standards

Learn how DTA can help your organisation meet the new Aged Care Quality standards, and prepare for assessment against them.

Medication Management Consultancy

We work with residential care providers to ensure that their use of antipsychotic medications is aligned with recommended practice.

Environments Consultancy

Our Environments Consultancy can help you create changes at your Organisation, big or small. Award Winning service, Learn more

Pharmacists boost dementia knowledge through online course

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

Request to retake an online course

Apply to retake a DTA online course or module

Online Symposium: Disinhibited behaviours and dementia

Overview Online symposium – Disinhibited behaviours and dementia Disinhibited behaviours are actions that seen tactless, rude, or even offensive. They occur when a person’s words and/or actions don’t follow the generally understood social rules about what or where to say…

Dementia Discovery

Jump to section: Section 1 Understanding the causes of dementia Dementia is one word, but it describes a range of conditions that involve changes in the brain and a wide collection of possible symptoms. Section 2 Learn more about types…

Dementia Essentials

Course Overview CHCAGE011 – Provide support to people living with dementia Build your team’s expertise or upskill yourself with this fully funded, nationally recognised unit of competency. This course offers skills and strategies to help with communication, planning, developing activities…

Pain Management Consultancy

The Pain Management Consultancy helps residential care providers to recognise, assess, treat and evaluate pain in people living with dementia.

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."

Watch the Online symposium: Making person-centred care a reality

This symposium, hosted by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and Dementia Training Australia, reflects on progress since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and safety, and added challenges of COVID-19. Join people with lived experience, clinicians, researchers, and…

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Changed Behaviour Consultancy

We work with organisations to help their staff understand the causes of responsive behaviours, and find ways to avoid or reduce them.

Introducing DTA’s new course – on sedatives

Nurses, pharmacists and other allied health professionals wanting to learn more about the Appropriate use of benzodiazepines and other sedatives with people living with dementia can now take up the chance to do a new short online course developed by…