The population of people in England and Wales who have dementia and need palliative care, such as nutritional support and symptom control, will rise considerably by 2040, possibly more than doubling.

October 16, 2009 — A new study looking at the natural history of dementia into its end stages finds high rates of complications, high 6-month mortality rates, and a high number of distressing symptoms ...

A new U.S. national survey has found that while palliative care may be available for those with dementia, there are significant barriers to providing or receiving services to relieve the pain, eating ...

Dementia is a progressive and largely irreversible clinical syndrome that is characterised by a widespread impairment of mental function. As the condition progresses, people with dementia can present ...

A program that provides palliative care to people with dementia and their caregivers lowered the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations by approximately half in about a year, a new ...

Clinicians may underassess the need for community-based palliative care among patients with dementia. Objectives: Community-based palliative care provides support for community-dwelling individuals ...

Just as people are learning to live with COVID-19, living with dementia is becoming an increasing reality for 6.5 million older Americans and their 11 million family caregivers. A new study reported ...

INDIANAPOLIS – IN-PEACE, which provides palliative care integrated with state-of-the-art dementia care to patients with dementia and their caregivers, cut in half the number of emergency department ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Greg A. Sachs, M.D., has received an award from the National Palliative Care Research Center to conduct a study aimed at improving quality of life and decreasing suffering for older ...

Special care units specifically for patients with YOD are available across the Netherlands and are supported by a national care program. 5,6 “Therefore,” write the authors, “the Dutch setting offers ...

New data shows that the symptoms suffered by people with advanced Alzheimer's disease and related dementias who live in the community occur at a strikingly similar rate to those of dementia patients ...