Assessment of pain in people living with dementia at the end of life: a systematic review.

Background: People with dementia may not receive the same quality of palliative care as those with other life-limiting conditions, particularly at end of life (EoL).

Aims: To understand the best way to examine pain in people with dementia.

Methods: A systematic review of tools to assess pain in patients with dementia near the end of life; PubMed, Medline, Embase, EBSCO Host, CINAHL Plus, Web of Science, Psycinfo, PsycArticles and Scopus were searched.

Developing mental health awareness and help seeking in prison: a feasibility study of the State of Mind Sport programme.

Purpose: The high prevalence of mental illness within the prison population necessitates innovative mental health awareness provision. This purpose of this feasibility study with 75 males (47 intervention; 28 control) was to evaluate State of Mind Sport (SOMS), originally developed as a community based mental health and well-being initiative, in a notoriously challenging prison setting.

Design/methodology/approach: A mixed 2 (group) × 2 (time) factorial design was adopted.

Living and dying with advanced dementia: A prospective cohort study of symptoms, service use and care at the end of life.

Background: Increasing number of people are dying with advanced dementia. Comfort and quality of life are key goals of care.

Aims: To describe (1) physical and psychological symptoms, (2) health and social care service utilisation and (3) care at end of life in people with advanced dementia.

Nursing home manager's knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about advance care planning for people with dementia in long-term care settings: a cross-sectional survey.

Aims And Objectives: To examine nursing home managers' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and current practice regarding advance care planning for people with dementia in long-term care settings informed by the theory of planned behaviour.

Background: Internationally, advance care planning is advocated for people with dementia. However, evidence suggests that discussions with people with dementia are rare, particularly in long-term care settings.

Health care professionals' perspectives of advance care planning for people with dementia living in long-term care settings: A narrative review of the literature.

This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the perspective of health care professionals (HCPs) in relation to advance care planning (ACP) for people with dementia, residing in long-term care settings. A narrative approach was adopted to provide a comprehensive synthesis of previously published literature in the area. A systematic literature search identified 14 papers for inclusion.