ArticleBMC palliative care2015
Identification of the palliative phase in people with dementia: a variety of opinions between healthcare professionals.
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- Physicians' decreased tendency to choose palliative care for patients with advanced dementia between 1999 and 2015.BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- 'Bare-bones' to 'silver linings': lessons on integrating a palliative approach to care in long-term care in Western Canada.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Earlier initiation of palliative care in the disease trajectory of people living with dementia: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Palliative Care in Advanced Dementia: Comparison of Strategies in Three Countries.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Dementia and Parkinson's Disease: Similar and Divergent Challenges in Providing Palliative Care.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
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- A painful experience of limited understanding: healthcare professionals' experiences with palliative care of people with severe dementia in Norwegian nursing homes.BMC palliative care · 2018Article
- Complex Clinical Intersection: Palliative Care in Patients with Dementia.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundPeople with dementia can benefit from a palliative care approach. Recommendations, such as those of the EAPC have been proposed to strengthen the provision of palliative care for this group of patients. Yet, it remains challenging for professionals to identify when a person with dementia is in need of palliative care. The objective of this study therefore was to explore when professionals in long-term care settings consider a person with dementia in need of palliative care.
methodsTeams with in total 84 professionals working in 13 long-term care settings from 6 countries (France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands) received a case-vignette concerning a person with dementia recently admitted to a nursing home. Teams were asked to discuss when they considered people with dementia eligible for palliative care. The constant comparative method was used to analyse their answers.
resultsThree different time points in the disease trajectory when people with dementia were considered to be eligible for palliative care were extracted: (1) early in the disease trajectory; (2) when signs and symptoms of advanced dementia are present; and (3) from the time point that curative treatment of co-morbidities is futile. Yet, none of these time points was uniformly considered by the professional teams across Europe. In some cases, professionals working in the same nursing home didn't even reach consensus when considering persons with dementia eligible for palliative care.
conclusionThe results of the study identified that professionals across Europe have different opinions regarding the time point when to consider a person with dementia in need of palliative care.
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