Recommendations for end of life dementia care published by EMBED-Care 

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EMBED-Care (Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care programme) has published a Policy Brief entitled, ‘Reforming end of life dementia care for those needing greater support – Policy priorities from the EMBED-Care Programme’. 

The recommendations follow a six-year research programme that considered current and future needs for integrated palliative dementia care across the UK population. The research, which brought together collaborators, clinicians, policy makers, patients and families, looked at how to meet the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of people dying from dementia and their carers.   

You can read the Policy Brief here: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/321916395/EMBED-Care_Policy_Brief.pdf 

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