Innovative and best models of palliative and end-of-life care - with focus on rural and remote communities.

Purpose Of Review: The review aims to synthesize the most recent innovative models of palliative care being delivered in rural and remote locations.

Recent Findings: Worldwide, as the ageing population grows, more people will require palliative care. However, equal availability of high-quality palliative care services remains a significant challenge, particularly in rural and remote communities.

Experiences of family carers supporting older people within the last year of life in rural and remote areas in the UK.

Background: In the UK, a large proportion of older adults live in rural/remote locations. More people are dying at home and require care from their families. Little is known about the experiences of family carers of older people in rural/remote areas in the last year of life.

Health and social care services for people with dementia at home at the end of life: A qualitative study of bereaved informal caregivers' experiences.

Background: More people are dying at home with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. While informal caregivers are the main providers of care for people with dementia dying at home, they require support from health and social care services. However, little is known about how they experience these services.

Cognitive impairment in older adults with cancer.

Purpose Of Review: Cognitive impairment is increasing in an ageing population and as people live longer, they are more likely to develop cancer therefore cognitive impairment and cancer are frequently co-occurring. We reviewed articles published since 2018 on cognitive impairment and cancer.

Recent Findings: The current review has focused on diagnosis, treatment and palliative and end of life care.

The facilitators and challenges of dying at home with dementia: A narrative synthesis.

Background:: It is reported that, given the right support, most people would prefer to die at home, yet a very small minority of people with dementia do so. At present, knowledge gaps remain on how best to support end-of-life care at home for people with dementia.

Aim:: To identify and understand the challenges and facilitators of providing end-of-life care at home for people with dementia.

Identifying palliative care needs in people with dementia.

Purpose Of Review: Dementia is now recognized as a progressive life-limiting illness where many patients can benefit from access to palliative care.

Recent Findings: The present review has focused on three areas namely, advanced care planning in supporting palliative care for dementia, hospice provision for people with dementia and provision of care within family home. In advanced care planning, there is little research on systematically developed and implemented advance care planning interventions or whether they achieve desired outcomes for end-of-life care.

An overview of Ghana's mental health system: results from an assessment using the World Health Organization's Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS).

Background: This survey provides data on the Mental Health System in Ghana for the year 2011. It supplies essential planning information for the implementation of Ghana's new Mental Health Act 846 of 2012, a renewal of the Ghana 5 year plan for mental health and it contributes to international knowledge base on mental health. It provides a baseline from which to measure future progress in Ghana and comparison data for use in other countries.