In the last 6 months of life, people with dementia are thought to experience symptoms (including pain) that last for longer and are less likely to be treated, compared with people dying of other conditions. The Department of Health’s End of life strategy recommends the use of appropriate tools and pathways, such as those listed below.

Preferred priorities for care

The Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC) document is designed to help people prepare for the future. It gives them an opportunity to think about, talk about and write down their preferences and priorities for care at the end of life.

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Gold standards framework

The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) is a systematic evidence based approach to optimising the care for patients nearing the end of life delivered by generalist providers. It is concerned with helping people to live well until the end of life and includes care in the final years of life for people with any end stage illness in any setting.

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Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for the Dying Patient is an integrated care pathway that is used at the bedside to drive up sustained quality of the dying in the last hours and days of life.

It is a means to transfer the best quality for care of the dying from the hospice movement into other clinical areas, so that wherever the person is dying there can be an equitable model of care.

The LCP has been implemented into hospitals, care homes, in the individuals own home / community and into the hospice.

Find out more about the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient