Alzheimer’ S Society Comment On A Review Of Palliative Care Published In The May Issue Of Journal Of Clinical Nursing, UK

One in three people over 65 will die with dementia and too many of them are subjected to an undignified and unnecessarily painful death. This is often because staff lack the specialist training to provide good care at the end of someone’s life. It is vital that all people, not just those with cancer, benefit from good palliative care. The number of people living with dementia in the UK is set to soar to more than a million in less than twenty years.

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