Rationale
Advance care planning helps
deliver care in a manner acceptable to service users with dementia
and their informal carers (eg by promoting palliation of
distressing symptoms rather than active treatment). Symptom control
in service users with dementia who are dying is often poor and
inappropriate hospitalisation can add to the distress. In the later
stages of dementia, links with local palliative care services and
use of care pathways for the dying may be useful.
Examples of evidence required to meet standard
29:
- Local protocol for end of life care
- Example advanced care planning documentation