The Power of Partnership

End of Life Care for People with Dementia Conference

10^th December 2009
Regent’s College, London

Good quality end of life care is at the heart of the Government’s End of Life Care Strategy. Good quality care is central to the Government’s National Dementia Strategy. The National Council for Palliative Care’s Dementia Project aims to bring the two together to really improve care for dementia patients

This partnership event between the National Council for Palliative Care, the NHS End of Life Care Programme, ‘for dementia’ and the Alzhemier’s Society showed the way forward for anyone involved in caring for people with dementia and provided valuable good practice examples.

This conference:

• Highlighted the important issues for people with dementia nearing the end of their life
• Discussed the policy context for the development of palliative and end of life care for people with dementia
• Highlighted the power of partnership working
• Explored and shared examples of best practice in palliative and end of life care from around the country
• Created an opportunity to discuss some of the related ethical issues provide a valuable forum for people working in dementia care

Dementia & End of Life Care:
The Story So Far

 1.8MB

Karen Harrison Dening
Consultant Admiral Nurse, NCPC, ‘for dementia’

Practical Partnerships:
Commissioning End of Life and Dementia Services

 422KB

Pauline Smith
End of Life Care and Dementia Lead NHS West Midlands

Palliative Care and End of Life
Living with Dementia

 6MB

Peter J S Ashley
Ambassador of the Alzheimer’s Society, Contributing Author – The Mental Capacity Act 2005,
Member of the External Working Group, the Dementia Strategy

End of Life Care for Dementia Patients:
The Care Homes Challenge

 75KB

Dr. Maria Parsons
Lead Dementia Advisor, Sanctuary Care

A: Assessing and Managing Distress and Pain in Severe Dementia

 737KB

Dr. Adrian Treloar
Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

C: Ask Me What I Want? Working in Partnership with Patients and Carers
Handout

 1.2MB

 137KB

Jesse Cunnett
Director of Patient and Public Involvement Solutions, Commission for Patient and Public Involvement
Jo Black
User Involvement Project Manager, NCPC

D: Assessment of End of Life Care for Dementia Patients: What we Learnt in Haringey

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Karen Harrison Dening
Consultant Admiral Nurse, NCPC, ‘for dementia’
Wendy Greenish
Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Old Age. Psychiatry