1) Information on the clinical symptoms in advanced stages of dementia and causes of death | |
2) Goals of palliative care: when, where and how to seek palliative care support | |
3) Legal basis of decision making including the role of the patient and their advance directives as well as the role of the legal representative and the doctor in ethical problems | |
4) Life prolonging measures, i.e. tube feeding, admission to hospital, intensive care treatment, resuscitation; consequences for the patient | |
5) Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options for dyspnea, pain, agitation, anxiety and delirium; thirst and hunger at end of life | |
6) Dying, death and after death; if applicable, advantages and disadvantages of different options are explained. | |
A checklist assists the reader in ensuring that all necessary issues have been taken into consideration. | |
An overview of the common drugs used in palliative care completes the booklet |