Wednesday 21 November 2018

An Admiral Nursing and hospice partnership in end-of-life care: innovative practice

Dementia, 2018 October 22
Karen Harrison Dening, Jaqueline Crowther, Sadaf Adnan

In partnership with Dementia UK Kirkwood Hospice in West Yorkshire embarked upon a two-year pilot to introduce the first end-of-life care Admiral Nurse to their Specialist Community Palliative Care Team to identify and support people with dementia who required palliative and end-of-life care. This paper describes and discusses this innovative partnership and outcomes from year one evaluation and sets out its future plans.