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| Improving end-of-life care for people with dementia | | Author(s) | Elizabeth L Sampson, Alistair Burns, Mike Richards |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 199, no 5, November 2011 |
| Pages | pp 357-359 |
| Source | http://bjp.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Quality. |
| Annotation | One in three adults over the age of 60 years will die with dementia. Most will have complex physical and psychological needs. This paper looks at why people with dementia experience poor end-of-life care, what are the end-of-life care needs of people with dementia and their families, and how such care for this client group can be improved. The authors refer to recent government strategies aimed at improving services, eg. The National Dementia Strategy, and the National End of Life Care Strategy. However the research has tended to focus on people with advanced dementia and little is known about people in the earlier stages of dementia who may be dying from other chronic comorbid conditions. New interventions on service models to improve care will have to be developed carefully, taking into account the wide range of settings in which people with dementia die. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-111208012 A |
| Classmark | EA: CX: LV: 59 |
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