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Palliative Care and Dementia

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Palliative care is an important and relevant approach for people with dementia. Integrating its principles in the care for them and their family caregivers, as they experience severe losses in their lives, can add value to the support provided to them. An optimal approach to palliative care for people with dementia has been defined by the European Association for Palliative Care with 11 domains including “Applicability of palliative care,” “Person-centered care, communication, and shared decision-making,” and “Setting care goals and advance care planning.” Not all people with dementia will require specialist palliative care, and all involved in dementia care should be able to provide palliative care focusing on care and treatment, which aims to increase the comfort and quality of life of the individual and supporting their family. There are many complications and symptoms that may arise for someone with dementia including: agitation, increased infections, shortness of breath, swallowing difficulties, and pain, which the individual may not be able to clearly express. These complications can lead to difficult decisions that need to be made by not only practitioners but also family caregivers as proxy. There should be a shared decision-making approach to these complications and symptoms, with advance care planning performed where possible. Each person with dementia is different and his/her needs should be assessed on an individual basis, adopting a person-centered approach to care.

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Davies, N., Klapwijk, M.S., van der Steen, J.T. (2024). Palliative Care and Dementia. In: MacLeod, R.D., Van den Block, L. (eds) Textbook of Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31738-0_113-2

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