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Hospice enabled dementia care: the first steps
— a guide to help hospices establish care for people with dementia, their families and carers | | Corporate Author | Hospice UK |
| Publisher | Hospice UK, London, March 2015 |
| Pages | 51 pp |
| Source | Download at: http://www.hospiceuk.org/what-we-offer/clinical-an... |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Terminal care ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | Dementia care is an increasingly important strategic consideration for palliative and end of life care providers, including hospices. However, there is a degree of uncertainty about what such care could and should encompass. This guidance for hospices seeks to assure them they have much to offer people living with dementia and their families. It offers reasons why dementia care is an important consideration for palliative and end of life care providers in the future. It considers the degree to which the hospice sector has started to acknowledge the dementia challenge, and the principles underpinning high quality care for people with dementia, their families and carers. It uses examples of practice to illustrate the strengths of hospices: that their care is expert, flexible, timely, led by people's needs, and is integrated and provided in partnership with others. It provides checklists of what hospices must do to support people with dementia, their families and carers, for example an evidence-based approach to care and the care environment. It suggests resources to help hospices achieve high quality care for people with dementia, their families and carers. The development of this resource was funded by Hope for Home. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-1507224006 E |
| Classmark | EA: LV: 583 |
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