Improving Advanced Dementia Care: An Interprofessional Palliare Learning Framework

Abstract

Evidence from improvement science and culture change projects leave us in no doubt that improvement is a complex and sometimes fallible undertaking. In long-term care environments, balance is required between efficacious treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation.

People with advanced dementia, many of whom require long-term care, have a myriad of dementia-related symptoms often presenting in tandem with comorbidities and frailty.

Keywords

• association
• dementia care
• complex care
• long-term care
• palliative care