residential aged care

Leading the change in medication management

16 Dec 2019

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

Change is here – amended legislation on chemical restraints in Australia

16 Dec 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.

Imagery showing a pill bottle getting smaller by 60%

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

06 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.

pills poured from a pill bottle into a hand

Reducing ineffective and dangerous medications

23 Oct 2018

DTA Director Andrew Stafford writes about the alarmingly high proportion of people living with dementia using antipsychotic medications

reducing dementia medications antipsychotics

Bedtime to Breakfast: caring at night for people with dementia

02 Feb 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...

New dementia e-learning for night time carers