**5.1. Staff training in dementia care**

With the increasing number of home support clients presenting with dementia-related symptoms, there was agreement from home support staff, managers and key stakeholders, that home support staff working with a person living with dementia require specialised training in dementia care. This finding is strongly supported by the research literature, with numerous studies revealing that the quality of care provided to people living with dementia is, in part, predicated upon the level of specialised dementia-care training staff receive [18, 19].

A number of staff and key stakeholders remarked that, in their opinion, DHBs had a responsibility to supply service providers with adequate levels of funding to ensure that home support staff dementia-care training requirements were met.
