Raymond, M;
Warner, A;
Davies, N;
Baishnab, E;
Manthorpe, J;
Iliffe, S;
(2014)
Evaluating educational initiatives to improve palliative care for people with dementia: A narrative review.
Dementia (London)
, 13
(3)
pp. 366-381.
10.1177/1471301212474140.
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Abstract
Dementia accounts for one in three deaths among people aged 65 and over, but end-of-life care for people with dementia is often sub-optimal. Palliative care for people with dementia poses particular challenges to those providing services, and current policy initiatives recommend education and training in palliative care for those working with patients with dementia. However, there are few evaluations of the effectiveness of dementia education and training. This paper presents a narrative review undertaken in 2011-2012 of evaluations of palliative care education for those working with people with dementia at the end of life. A total of eight papers were identified that described and evaluated such palliative care education; none reported benefits for people with dementia. There is a clear need to develop and evaluate educational interventions designed to improve palliative and end-of-life care for people with dementia. Some suggestions for educationally sound approaches are discussed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Evaluating educational initiatives to improve palliative care for people with dementia: A narrative review. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1471301212474140 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301212474140 |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2013. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| Keywords: | dementia; end-of-life care; healthcare; professional education and training; palliative care; |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1388780 |
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