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ROLE
The SA & NT Dementia Training Study Centre (DTSC) has been funded as part of the Australian Government’s Dementia Training Study Centres for Health Professionals Project and is designed to develop the dementia skills of existing and future health care professionals.
NATIONAL CENTRES
The SA & NT DTSC is one of five such Centres developed nationally.
| SA & NT DTSC Alzheimer's Australia SA |
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QLD DTSC Uni of Technology |
| WA DTSC Curtin University |
VIC & TAS DTSC La Trobe University |
AIMS
With funding until June 30, 2013 the Centre aims to:
- develop and promote dementia specific curriculum,
- develop and promote dementia tertiary training resources,
- develop the skills of healthprofessonals to improve the level of dementia care provided through the acute, community and residential care settings
- liaise with key stakeholders,
- provide short-term dementia specific learning, opportunities through professonal development, guest lectures and clinical workshops,
- promote and manage dementia scholarships,
- participate in national forums, and
- work closely with Dementia Collaborative Research, Centres and other training projects.
CENTRE PARTNER ORGANISATIONS
As the lead organisation, Alzheimer’s Australia SA Inc is proud to be working in partnership with the following organizations:
- Aged and Community Services SA & NT Inc
- Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
- Charles Darwin University
- Flinders University
- The University of Adelaide
- University of South Australia
WHO ARE THE CENTRE’S CLIENTS?
The Centre’s clients are health professionals qualified and/or seeking to be qualified at a tertiary level. This target group includes nurses, general practitioners, medical specialists (eg geriatricians and psychiatrists), social workers, occupational and diversional therapists, psychologists and other allied health disciplines.
APPROACH
Defining itself by its unique approach, the SA & NT DTSC will use a consumer based approach to determining what learning/teaching resources are required to train health professionals in order to improve the care and services of people with dementia and their carers.
HOW THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED
The Centre will use three major mechanisms to facilitate its consumer based approach.
1. Collaboration
Centre management will engage in ongoing consultation and collaboration within the sector and particularly with other Demenita Initiative projects . In addition the Centre will network and develop linkages with aged care providers and the acute care sector to develop resources and training. The centre will work collaboratively with it's partners to develop resources and to influence curriculum within the tertiary sector.
2. Resource Development & Delivery
The Centre will undertake a number of Special Projects that will involve: the development of undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum; professional development activities; case studies and problem based learning scenarios; and, developing teaching/learning resources such as interactive CD-Roms, on-line self directed study, and videos.
Centre resources will be developed to match the skills, experience, language, demographic, geographic, literacy and learning styles of students, including those from:
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities;
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rural and remote communities; and
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culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD).
Some resources will be multi-disciplinary and some discipline specific.
3. Dementia Needs Analysis
To ensure a consumer based approach and to continue to be influenced , the Centre will undertake another Dementia Needs Analysis Survey in 2010/2011.
