Registered nurse Alison* has spent almost $40,000 throughout her 20-year career in aged care learning how to work compassionately with elderly people and, in particular, those with dementia.
Despite more than two-thirds of those in residential aged care living with moderate to severe cognitive impairment, including dementia, and the condition being Australia’s biggest killer of women, training in dementia care is not compulsory for aged care staff.
