End of life care interventions for people with dementia in care homes: addressing uncertainty within a framework for service delivery and evaluation

Claire Goodman; Katherine Froggatt; Sarah Amador; Elspeth Mathie; Andrea Mayrhofer

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End of life care interventions for people with dementia in care homes: addressing uncertainty within a framework for service delivery and evaluation

Claire Goodman, Katherine Froggatt, Sarah Amador, Elspeth Mathie, Andrea Mayrhofer

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Methods: The data from three studies on EoL care in care homes: (i) EVIDEM EoL , (ii) EPOCH , and (iii) TTT EoL were used to inform the development of the framework. All used mixed method designs and two had an intervention designed to improve how care home staff provided end of life care. The EVIDEM EoL and EPOCH studies tracked the care of older people in care homes over a period of 12 months. The TTT study collected resource use data of care home residents for three months, and surveyed decedents' notes for ten months,
Results: Across the three studies, 29 care homes, 528 residents, 205 care home staff, and 44 visiting health care professionals participated. Analysis of showed that end of life interventions for people with dementia were characterised by uncertainty in three key areas; what treatment is the 'right' treatment, who should do what and when, and in which setting EoL care should be delivered and by whom? These uncertainties are conceptualised as Treatment uncertainty, Relational uncertainty and Service uncertainty. This paper proposes an emergent framework to inform the development and evaluation of EoL care interventions in care homes.
Conclusion: For people with dementia living and dying in care homes, EoL interventions need to provide strategies that can accommodate or "hold" the inevitable and often unresolvable uncertainties of providing and receiving care in these settings

Original language	English
Article number	42
Number of pages	9
Journal	BMC Palliative Care
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-015-0040-0
Publication status	Published - 17 Sept 2015

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Uncertainty; Dementia; End of life; Care Homes; Evaluation framework; Care Homes; Terminal Care; Method

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