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Health
Sam McKeith

Dementia expert blasts six week training

A dementia expert has branded as 'criminal' that some carers need only six weeks online training. (Angela Brkic/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The level of training needed to become a dementia carer in Australia can be as little as six weeks online, a major conference into the degenerative brain disease has heard.

Almost half a million Australians are now living with dementia and the most common form of the condition, Alzheimer's disease, is set to cost the economy $26.6 billion over the next two decades.

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