Staff perspectives on end-of-life care for people living with dementia in residential aged care homes: qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People living with dementia in care homes can benefit from palliative approaches to care; however, not all will require specialist palliative care. The generalist aged care workforce is well placed to provide most of this care with adequate training and support systems in place, but little is known about their experiences.

Objective

To describe staff perspectives on providing quality end-of-life care for people living with dementia in residential care and their families.

Methods

Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted with residential aged care managerial and frontline staff in Australia who were caring for residents living with dementia and end-of life needs. A comprehensive, then snowballing sampling strategy was used in participating

SUBMITTER: Juhrmann ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10166813 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature