GPs routinely deliver palliative care to people with dementia

If Yorganci and Sleeman are concerned about palliative care for people with dementia, they might want to join me or any of the other thousands of general practitioners who do weekly rounds in care homes across the country.1 They would be surprised at the amount of palliative care that is being routinely delivered by GPs and associated multidisciplinary teams.If they joined me, they could find out about the Enhanced Health in Care Home model (https://www.england.nhs.uk/community-health-services/ehch/) and the locally enhanced services that fund high quality care in care homes across the country. They could meet the extended team of psychiatrists, dementia care specialists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists that surround each resident in care homes to allow them to have the best quality of life possible. They could shadow the many experienced nurses in these homes who consider pain and agitation every day when providing holistic care to…
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