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Palliative care for people with dementia

01 October 2008

Mental Health Practice

General

Treating older people as individuals is a key objective of the National Service Framework for Older People, which states that older people should ‘receive...

Improving palliative care

21 May 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

Any service improvement project requires planning, action and evaluation. Using a recognised quality improvement framework can offer a structured approach to...

Supporting people who have dementia to die with dignity

22 June 2009

Nursing Older People

Feature

This article highlights some of the key themes and challenges in the empirical, policy and clinical literature on end-of-life care for people with dementia. It is...

Parkinson’s disease, palliative care and older people: part 2

01 April 2004

Nursing Older People

CPD

In the second of two articles on palliative care for people with Parkinson’s disease, the authors consider other aspects of care relevant to this complex stage. They...

Parkinson’s disease, palliative care and older people: part 1

01 March 2004

Nursing Older People

CPD

In the first of two articles on palliative care for people with Parkinson’s disease, the authors revise the common features of the disease, its different stages and...

Caring for people with end-stage dementia

25 March 2010

Nursing Older People

CPD

This article considers the role of palliative care in the management of patients with dementia. It aims to broaden the knowledge of nurses providing general care as...

How nurses can help ease patient transitions to end of life care

01 October 2013

Nursing Older People

Art & Science

Moving from curative to palliative care is often difficult for patients, families and healthcare providers, because hospice or end of life care can be seen as a...

Collaborating on the integration of cancer nursing services

04 September 1996

Nursing Standard

Cancer nursing

The Calman-Hine report (DoH 1995) proposed the delivery of a uniformly high level of cancer care across the UK. A network of services provided through cancer...

Dying in good hands

14 July 2009

Nursing Standard

Features

The End of Life Care Strategy, published a year ago, sets out best practice. Nurses are starting to deliver the strategy but more needs to be done.

Understanding depression in palliative and end-of-life care

02 December 2008

Nursing Standard

Learning zone continuing professional development

Depression in patients receiving palliative and end-of-life care is difficult to distinguish from grief and sadness. However, there are some important distinctions...

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