End-of-life toolkit helps staff talk to people with dementia

A new set of free online resources has been developed to help frontline aged care staff initiate end-of-life conversations with people with dementia.

Produced by dementia specialist aged care provider HammondCare, The Advance Project features a free online toolkit of training and resources to empower aged care staff to begin planning for the palliative care needs of people living with dementia in aged care homes and community settings.

Featuring videos and eLearning tools, the toolkit aims to help build capacity in people working in aged and primary care to:

• start conversations about advance care planning with people living with different stages of dementia
• empower and prepare families to advocate for the person’s end-of-life care wishes
• systemically assess the palliative care needs of the person living with dementia
• identify people with dementia who would benefit from a structured assessment of their palliative care needs
• identify those people with dementia who would most benefit from referral to specialist palliative care services.

Download the Information Sheet

Access the training resources here.