DTA currently uses different terms for behaviour. We will be progressively moving to the term Changed Behaviour in all our content.

Rural and remote Australia

Providing accessible dementia education and training across Australia

Dementia Training Australia (DTA) delivers high-quality dementia courses, resources and services to all parts of Australia, and is committed to rural and remote Australia.

DTA is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Health to provide training to health and aged care staff on care of people living with dementia.

Our online dementia courses, workshops and resources are accessed by a variety of people each year, Australia-wide.

Environments consultancy

Our award-winning Environments Consultancy has a team of specialists based in 5 Australian states, who are are available and prioritise visits to rural and remote locations across Australia.

We can discuss how to use your environment more effectively, help you plan a new facility or refurbish your existing one.

This service may help your organisation meet the Aged Care Quality Standards: Standard 1, Standard 5

Our commitment to rural and regional Australia

DTA’s Road trip across Australia in 2018

To ensure that our courses and resources are suited to the needs of health and aged care staff working in rural and remote parts of Australia, DTA directors and staff embarked on a series of road trips in 2018.

Identify gaps and areas of need

Before each trip, we invited aged and health care facilities in the towns we were visiting to a half-day meeting which includes a workshop on an area of topical interest (for example medication management, responsive behaviours, environmental design) followed by a discussion on DTA courses and resources with the aim of identifying gaps, and areas of need that are specific to services operating at a distance from the support available in metropolitan areas.

Places we visited

This outreach into rural and remote parts of Australia is helping DTA develop new courses or resources that go beyond the needs of metropolitan services, ensuring that we provide a truly national service.

DTA Workshop held
in Kingston, SA

26-Jun NSW Narrabri
27-Jun NSW Moree
28-Jun QLD Goondiwindi
6-Jul VIC Mildura
11-Jul TAS Launceston
12-Jul TAS Burnie
13-Jul TAS Devonport
19-Jul VIC Swan Hill
20-Jul VIC Horsham
24-Jul VIC Leongatha
24-Jul NT Alice Springs
25-Jul NT Darwin
25-Jul VIC Bairnsdale
26-Jul VIC Traralgon
27-Jul VIC Warragul
14-Aug NSW Narrandera
15-Aug NSW Griffith
16-Aug NSW Deniliquin
16-Aug VIC Ararat
21-Aug SA Mount Gambier
22-Aug SA Bordertown
23-Aug SA Murray Bridge
28-Aug SA Port Lincoln
29-Aug SA Whyalla
30-Aug SA Port Pirie
3-Sep WA Kalgoorlie
5-Sep WA Esperance
10-Sep WA Bunbury
11-Sep WA Margaret River
13-Sep WA Albany
9-Oct QLD Charleville
10-Oct QLD Roma
11-Oct QLD Chinchilla
12-Oct QLD Dalby

This face-to-face investigation was part of a project that extended to the most remote services in Australia

These services have been identified from Health Department records, and we contacted them with an invitation to complete a training needs analysis questionnaire, telling us about their special circumstances and needs.

In exchange for this information, the remote services were provided with a subscription to the bi-monthly publication Australian Journal of Dementia Care (AJDC) which is accompanied with a ‘Journal Club’ booklet, designed to guide a discussion of four AJDC articles. The idea being that the AJDC publication and booklet were used to support fortnightly meetings at which the staff can discuss one of the recent developments in the care of people with dementia described in the current issue of the AJDC.

Picture of the AJDC
Journal Club Booklet