A Cluster-Randomised Trial of Staff Education to Improve the Quality of Life of People with Dementia Living in Residential Care: The DIRECT Study

• Christopher Beer ,

  * E-mail: Christopher.beer@uwa.edu.au

  Affiliations WA Centre for Health and Ageing, Centre for Medical Research, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Barbara Horner,

  Affiliation Centre for Research on Ageing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Leon Flicker,

  Affiliations WA Centre for Health and Ageing, Centre for Medical Research, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Samuel Scherer,

  Affiliations Royal Freemasons, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Nicola T. Lautenschlager,

  Affiliations WA Centre for Health and Ageing, Centre for Medical Research, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, St Vincent's Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Nick Bretland,

  Affiliation Rowethorpe Medical Centre, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia

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• Penelope Flett,

  Affiliation Brightwater Care, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Frank Schaper,

  Affiliation Alzheimer's Australia WA Ltd, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Osvaldo P. Almeida

  Affiliations WA Centre for Health and Ageing, Centre for Medical Research, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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