Table 3.
Training Topic Themes Included in Standards
| Training topics | Care setting | Basic skills | Advanced skills | Health promotion | Ethics and values | Staff support | Number of standards listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People in regular close contact with people living with dementia | ✓ | 13 | |||||
| Basic dementia awareness | ✓ | 12 | |||||
| Communication in dementia care | ✓ | 12 | |||||
| Community care | ✓ | 12 | |||||
| Recognizing delirium | ✓ | 12 | |||||
| Understanding legal issues and legislation | ✓ | 12 | |||||
| Dementia risk reduction and prevention | ✓ | 11 | |||||
| Diagnosis of dementia | ✓ | 11 | |||||
| End-of-life care for people living with dementia | ✓ | 11 | |||||
| Ethics, potential risks, and safeguards | ✓ | 11 | |||||
| Home care | ✓ | 11 | |||||
| Hospital and acute care | ✓ | 11 | |||||
| Evidence-based decisions and practice | ✓ | 10 | |||||
| Nonpharmacological behavior management | ✓ | 10 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being (all categories)a | ✓ | 10 | |||||
| Palliative care | ✓ | 10 | |||||
| Leadership in dementia care | ✓ | 10 | |||||
| Primary health | ✓ | 9 | |||||
| Communication with carer or family | ✓ | 9 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being: social | ✓ | 9 | |||||
| Enabling environment | ✓ | 9 | |||||
| Recording and reporting | ✓ | 9 | |||||
| Equality, diversity, and inclusion (all categories)b | ✓ | 9 | |||||
| Integrated care | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Person-centered care | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Communication with people living with dementia | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Nutrition/food/oral health | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Younger onset dementia | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Advance care planning/directive/living will | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being: psychological | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Local nonmedical support (including advocacy) | ✓ | 8 | |||||
| Rehabilitation | ✓ | 7 | |||||
| Residential aged care/nursing home | ✓ | 7 | |||||
| Holistic care | ✓ | 7 | |||||
| Cognitive assessment and screening/memory function | ✓ | 7 | |||||
| Pharmacological care | ✓ | 7 | |||||
| Assistive technology | ✓ | 7 | |||||
| Biopsychosocial assessment | ✓ | 6 | |||||
| Pain management, including effect on people living with dementia | ✓ | 6 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being: spiritual | ✓ | 6 | |||||
| Digital/health literacy | ✓ | 6 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being: physical (including comorbidities) | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| Maintaining carer well-being | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| Equality, diversity, and inclusion: cultural and linguistic backgrounds | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| Understand dementia care funding | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being: mental (including comorbidities) | ✓ | 4 | |||||
| Prevention of falls and fractures | ✓ | 4 | |||||
| Equality, diversity, and inclusion: First Nations Peoples | ✓ | 4 | |||||
| Navigating the aged care support system | ✓ | 4 | |||||
| Respite care | ✓ | 3 | |||||
| Telehealth | ✓ | 2 | |||||
| Maintaining well-being: employment | ✓ | 1 | |||||
| Housing | ✓ | 1 | |||||
| Health literacy | ✓ | 1 | |||||
| Health professional self-care | ✓ | 1 | |||||
| Trauma informed care | ✓ | 0 | |||||
| Equality, diversity, and inclusion: rural and remote | 0 |
aMaintaining well-being for people living with dementia subcategories: physical (including comorbidities), mental (including comorbidities), psychological, social, spiritual, and employment.
bEquality, diversity, and inclusion subcategories: First Nations Peoples, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, rural, and remote.