IHP Dementia Knowledge Day

LOROS Hospice, 14th July 2010

Welcome

Alan Heron, Senior Commercial Manager, IHP.

Achieving the National Dementia Strategy:

Prof. Jane Gilliard, National Dementia Strategy Programme

Manager, Dept. of Health.

The National Dementia Strategy

Professor Jane GilliardNDS National Programme Manager (Implementation)Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships

Launched Feb 2009

The 3 themes

• Public and professional awareness

• Early diagnosis

• Quality of care

17 (+1) recommendations

National dementia strategy

• Currently 570,000 people with dementia in England (700,000 in UK)

• Numbers likely to double in the next 30 years

• Cost currently is £17 billion

• Costs likely to treble to more than £50 billion

Dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life, ahead of some cancers, cardiovascular disease and stroke

40% of people admitted to hospital have dementia 30% of older people develop delirium during their stay in hospital 50% of hip fracture patients have dementia At least 50% of long term care residents have dementia 40% of the work of the work of community matrons is focussed on

people with dementias a co-morbid condition

Need to improve range and quality of support and services

Why a National Dementia Strategy?

End of Life Care for all terminal conditions –burden of disability according to WHO (2003)

Medical condition Proportion of Years Lived With Disability (YLD)

Dementia 11.2%

Stroke 9.5%

Musculoskeletal 8.9%

Cardiovascular 5.0%

Cancer 2.4%

Dying from and with dementia

• 60,000 die directly of dementia yearly Knapp & Prince 2007

• A common contributor or accompaniment to dying: 1 in 3 of over 65s will die with dementia Byrne 2006

People with dementia and their carers to be involved in planning end of life care which recognises the principles outlined in the Department of Health

End of Life Care Strategy. Local work on the End of Life Care Strategy to

consider dementia.

Objective 12- improved end of life care for people with dementia

17 Objectives, of which seven are priorities:

• Good-quality early diagnosis and intervention for all

• Improved community personal support services

• Implementing the Carers’ Strategy

• Improved quality of care for people with dementia in general hospitals

• Living well with dementia in care homes

• An informed and effective workforce for people with dementia

• A joint commissioning strategy.

Priorities for implementation

• Leadership– People with dementia and carers– Prof Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director, Dementia– Sir Ian Carruthers, CE South West Strategic Health Authority – Jenny Owen and Simon Williams, Association Directors Adult Social Services (ADASS)– Martin Green, ECCA, Care Homes

• National and Regional Programmes in place and working– Central implementation team: policy and implementation

• A lead and implementation programme for each priority Objective– Regional implementation team

• Making Connections – Policy: embedding dementia with Dignity, Carers and working with other key policy areas eg Personalisation– Professional bodies eg Royal Colleges– Other work programmes eg Enhancing the Healing Environment

• Implementation projects– Advisory/project groups in place for the Objectives: building partnerships and buy-in– Projects commissioned and underway

Year 1: Building the foundations

• 40 Demonstrator Sites for Dementia Advisors (22) and Peer Support (18)

• Joint Commissioning Framework published June and national conference October 2009

• Cause, Care and Cure - major national research summit

• Regional leadership network established

• Skills for Health/Care mapping training and education

• Pocket guides issued for care home managers issued in October

• 1st national memory assessment conference Nov 2009

• Anti-psychotics Review published November

Key events in the last year

11 recommendations• Reducing use is a priority backed up by

audit and explicit goals• Curricula needed• In reach to homes• Care Quality Commission• Access to Psychological Therapies

Programme • People with dementia in their own

homes.

Antipsychotics in dementia

• Established partnerships with EoLC Strategy team and National EoLC programme

• Links with NCPC and Dying Matters

• NEoLC newsletter – Issue 17, Dec 2009

• NICE Commissioning Guidance – published ??

• Established a reference group to advise and steer work

• Developing online web-based resource guide

• Due to launch in August

• www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk

Objective 12 – improving end of life care

• Haringey audit tool

• Palliative care for people with dementia in Croydon

• Gables Nursing Home in Peterborough

• Southwark modernisation initiative

• Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network

EoLC innovative practice

• Need to spread and adopt models of best practice

• Dementia Portal to diffuse best examples

• We all need to innovate - a challenge for us all, but we all can

• But avoid re-inventing of wheels, and learn from the best

• Remember, always be ready to replicate.

Implementing best practice

• Strategy widely welcomed

• National and regional support in place

• Range of national initiatives to support implementation

• High profile in terms media and other interest

• Priority indicated from the centre

• Clinical leadership provided by new National Clinical Director

• Focus on disseminating best practice

• Are changes really happening on the ground?

Conclusions

Jane.Gilliard@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Claire.Goodchild@dh.gsi.gov.uk

www.dementia.dh.gov.uk

www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk

Contacts

Implementing end of life care:

Dr Sanjana Nyatsanza, MBBS, MD (Psychiatry), MRCPsych,

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation

Trust.

Implementing End of Life Care in Dementia

14th July 2010

Dr Sanjana NyatsanzaConsultant Old Age Psychiatrist

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Outline

What is Palliative Care Government guidelines How to improve end-of-life care Application of Mental Capacity Act CQC Regulations

What is Palliative Care?

An approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness,

through the prevention and relief of suffering

by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of

pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

(WHO)“palliare” – to cloak or cover

Recent Reports Dementia is a terminal condition

Prognosis 3-9 yrs from diagnosis; avg - 4.5yrs

60,000 deaths pa attributable to dementia - Dementia 2010 – Alzheimer’s Research Trust

RCP Report – Palliative Care Services: Meeting the Needs of Patients (2007)

Encourages move from charity-based hospices to mainstream NHS

To ensure standards & equitable services

*D Jolley & M Tapley - Due respect & professional care in death - The Psychiatrist - April 2010

Who does Palliative Care apply to?

Previously reserved for malignancy

Government policies encourage application of palliative care principles in all terminal conditions, including dementia

Traditional models may not be appropriate

Changes in service provision, attitude & education are needed

Challenges in providing good palliative care in Dementia

Difficulty viewing dementia as a terminal illness Lack of awareness among staff / carers

Myths that patients do not experience pain or distressing symptoms

Agitation attributed to ‘normal’ progression of dementia Unrecognised symptoms

Lack of knowledge of assessment & symptom management

Difficulty in predicting start of the terminal phase

*S Bell - Peterborough Palliative Care in Dementia Group

Complex palliative care needs of people with dementia

Tend to be older; experience more pain in last months than cancer patients & spend last year of life in care homes

Symptoms progress from memory impairment, to behavioural change

Physical problems increase with falls, incontinence, difficulty swallowing & inanition.

Terminal phase may include immobility, contractures, decubitus ulcers and recurrent infections;

with behaviour that seems to indicate distress and is unresponsive to most approaches to reassurance

* National Council for Palliative Care - Exploring palliative care for people with dementia* The Regional Study of Care of the Dying

Terminal phase of care in dementia is less than optimal

Symptoms of distress unresolved, sometimes with no attempt to ameliorate them.

Repeated admissions to acute hospitals for assessment

Given ill-informed, inappropriate, life-sustaining treatment that only prolongs suffering & adds to confusion & distress

Development of additional complications - decubitus ulcers or colonisation with MRSA.

Carers are rarely informed of the likely outcomes for patients with dementia

*RCP Report – Palliative Care Services: Meeting the Needs of Patients

NICE-SCIE Guidance on palliative care in dementia

‘Dementia care should incorporate a palliative care approach from the time of diagnosis until death. The aim should be to support the quality of life of people with dementia and to enable them to die with dignity and in the place of their choosing, while also supporting carers during their bereavement, which may both anticipate and follow death.’

Living well with dementia: A National Dementia Strategy DoH,

2009 Objective 12: Improved end of life care for

people with dementia. People with dementia and their carers to be

involved in planning care Department of Health’s End of Life Care

Strategy 2004 : requires integration of care across primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare and social services

Local work on the End of Life Care Strategy to consider dementia

“Good” palliative care in dementia? (WHO 2002)

A team approach: to relieve distressing symptoms; to affirm life and to see dying as a normal process,

to be neither hastened nor postponed; to integrate the psychological and the spiritual; to offer a support system to help patients live as

actively as possible and to help the family cope, including during bereavement;

to enhance quality of life, which might positively influence the course of the illness;

to become involved early in the course of the illness and to work in conjunction with other therapeutic approaches

*J Hughes - Dementias 2010 Conference

CQC Regulations

involvement and information personalised care and treatment safety and safeguarding

What’s the evidence that a palliative care approach works?

(Sampson, Ritchie, Lai, et al. 2005)

Retrospective case-note studies demonstrate inadequate palliative care in both psychiatric and acute hospital wards (Lloyd-Williams, 1996; Sampson et al, 2006)

Equivocal evidence of the efficacy of a palliative model of care in dementia

Increased interest, but little evidence: ethical difficulties, prognostic uncertainty, lack of clear outcome measures

*J Hughes - Dementias 2010 Conference

Solutions

Cross-specialty training Increased awareness – professionals,

carers & public Co-ordination of multi-agency care Development of specialist hospice-style

services, within the framework of continuing NHS care

The PEACE* programme

physical and psychological symptoms advance care planning education about disease connections to community resources coordination of care with an interdisciplinary

team lead by a clinical nurse specialist patient-family centred care use hospice services for end-stage patients

*Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts - Shega JW, Sachs GA. (2010) Offering supportive care in dementia: reflections on the PEACE programme. In: Supportive Care for the Person with Dementia

Application of Mental Capacity Act

Five principles: Presumption of capacity Support to individual to reach the decision The right to make unwise or eccentric decisions Decisions should be in patients “Best Interests” Least restrictive decision or action

Be mindful of fluctuations in capacity Respect patient’s past wishes & feelings and valid / applicable advance

decisions Involve IMCA, in case of serious medical treatment, esp. if harm or risks

outweighs benefit (PEG) LPA or court appointed deputy Ultimate arbiter – Court of Protection - declaration Preferred place of care disputes; with holding life-sustaining treatment If subject to DOLS – death in custody

Advance Care Planning

Patients may still retain capacity to make informed choices

Involve patient and carers as far as possible, in care plans, in advance

Carers can plan for the future and feel more supported in making decisions

Better resolution of carers’ bereavement Reduction in admissions from care homes

to hospital

The Last Months

“The surprise question” GSF & LCP give guidance re difficult

decisions – hydration, nutrition; pain control & communication

GSF Prognostic indicator guidanceBarthel score: activities of daily living <3No consistent meaningful verbal communicationSignificant weight loss (>10% body weight in 6m)Pressure soresRecurrent UTI / aspiration pneumonia

Can we tell?

Trajectory for some cancers is predictable & short

For dementia – longer, erratic time course

(so cannot apply LCP rigidly)

*G Evans – ‘Living Well & Dying Well in Dementia’ Symposium 2010

Palliative Care Indicator Guidance*

1. Does the patient have moderately severe or severe dementia?

2. Does the patient also have a. Severe distress (mental or physical) which is not easily amenable to treatment?b. Severe physical frailty which is not easily

amenable to treatment?c. Another condition (eg. co-morbid cancer)

which merits palliative care services in its own right?

*National Council for Palliative Care The Power of Partnership: Palliative Care in Dementia, Dec 2009

Anticipatory Planning

Person with dementia and relatives

Advance Directive/Living Will

Lasting Power of Attorney for Health & Welfare

Advance Care Plan

GP and Senior Care Home staff

Allow a natural death form

GSF Palliative care register

Preferred Priorities of Care Form (not just place of care) - preferences / wishes are discussed & documented in advance; minimizes inappropriate admissions/ interventions *NHS End of Life Care Programme

Contingency Plans

Active management of pain and distress Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Cancer chemotherapy Complex surgical procedures Hospital admission for injuries such as fractures Hospital admission for stroke Hospital admission for chest or other severe

infections Swallowing difficulties Dehydration Terminal care

The Greenwich Care Home Illness Plan (GCHIP)

Examples from the GCHIP:Use of Acute hospitals We do/ do not recommend that hospital admission

may be appropriate for injuries such as fractures We do/ do not recommend that hospital admission

may be appropriate for illness such as chest infections Terminal care When dying is imminent and the patient is distressed

we would expect that medication (e.g. antibiotics) will be given to alleviate the distress that may occur during death

Patient has/ lacks capacity for this decision Patient aware Next of kin/ advocate awareGP initials Date

Common symptoms in the terminal phase

Pain Nausea & vomiting Breathlessness Distress/ restlessness/ agitation Respiratory secretions (‘death rattle’)

*S Bell - Peterborough Palliative Care in Dementia Group

Diagnosing dying Profound weakness

Drowsy or reduced cognition

Diminished intake of food/fluids

Difficulty swallowing medication

Abnormal breathing patterns

Reduced peripheral perfusion with skin colour and temperature changes

General considerations

Review of all medication and other interventions: Can any drugs be stopped? Do routine obs need to continue? Can important drugs be given via an

alternative route or changed to ones that can? e.g. syringe driver for SC drugs, PR NSAIDs

Is enteral feeding/ fluids continuing to offer benefit or can they be stopped?

Nursing care Quality nursing care is the basis of terminal care

management Try and involve the family Attention to detail Anticipate and prevent problems

Careful positioning Skin care Pressure area care Mouth care Bowel & bladder care Eye care

Pain Physical, psychological, spiritual distress

Cannot assume that a non-communicative / semi-conscious patient will not perceive pain

~65% non-cancer patients will have pain

Substantially undertreated

Assessment to elucidate underlying cause, reverse where possible & treat where not

Pain Assessment Tools (PAINAD and DisDAT) to identify

pain & monitor outcome of intervention in people with severe dementia

In terminal phase, oral route can be lost Follow the WHO analgesic ladder & titrate carefully Do not withhold strong analgesics if needed Do not remove patch - continue to change as

previously; give additional analgesia via CSCI Opioid naive likely to need very small doses

Suppositories (Paracetamol, Diclofenac) Sublingual (Fentanyl, alfentanil) Parenteral (Morphine, Diamorphine, Oxycodone) Transdermal (Fentanyl & Buprenorphine)

Distress/ restlessness/ agitation

Behaviour may be due to one of many causes Can lead to false positives on pain assessment

scales Elucidate and target management at this cause Non-drug treatment

Environmental control Presence, touch & reassurance Spiritual support

Drug treatment Consider drug withdrawal eg nicotine, alcohol Benzodiazepines eg midazolam Anti-psychotics eg haloperidol, levomepromazine

CQC RegulationsPeople who use services will have their needs met because they: Are involved in the assessment / planning & able to make choices and

decisions about their preferred options, particularly pain management And their families have information relating to death and dying Are able to have those people who are important to them, with them at

the end of their life Can have a dignified death, because staff are respectful of their needs

for privacy, dignity and comfort Have a care plan which records their wishes with regards to how their

body and possessions are handled after their death and staff respect their values and beliefs

Can have assessments by specialist palliative care services / other specialists

There are arrangements to minimise unnecessary disruption to the care, treatment, support and accommodation

‘How people die remains in the memory of those who live on.’

Dame Cicely Saunders - Founder of Modern Hospice Movement

“Slowly, I learn about the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is not to be afraid of it – not to run away. The dying know that we are not God,

All they ask is that we do not desert them.”

Cassidy S. Sharing the Darkness; the Spirituality of Caring.

How can collective procurement help?

Tracey Allford, Operations Manager, LOROS.

LOROS Hospice• Member since mid-2009• Local registered Charity providing care

and support in Leicestershire & Rutland• A specialist centre providing skilled

nursing and medical focused on patient and relatives’ needs

• 31 in-patient Hospice and Day Centre with outreach facilities in the community

Key Facts 2010/11• Running Costs £7million p/a• No of employees 290• No of volunteers 850• No of LOROS shops 21• No of individuals benefiting • from LOROS services 2500 pa

Why did LOROS join?

• To save money = more money for patient and family needs

• To work with similar independent health care providers to benefit from joint purchasing

What did we do?

• Stationery – Office depot• Energy – 20 Charity shops• Linen – Hospice• Catering• Kitchen Equipment

Savings?• Stationery

– Significant savings on office consumables– Up to 50% savings achieved on furniture

• Energy– 20 Charity shops reviewed and one shops £2000 pa saved on electricity

(40%)

• Linen– New sheets, pillow cases and quilts purchased – saving of 30%

• Catering– Eggs, Cooked meats – savings around 8%

• Kitchen Equipment– Hostess Trolley and Dishwasher (£400) within IHP Members

Improving the quality of dementia services:

Jackie Crowther, Researcher, Academic Palliative and Supportive

Care Studies Group (APSCSG).

Dementia:what care do patients and

carers need in the last year of life?

Jackie Crowther PhD Student

Professor Mari Lloyd-Williams

Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group (APSCSG)

University of Liverpool

Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

Three year PhD projectFunded by St. Luke’s Hospice CheshireQualitative methodologyNarrative = data collection methodEthical approval to interview up to 40 bereaved carers

PROGRESS TO DATE:N=38 bereaved informal carersFemale N=29 Male N=9 Age range of participants =19-86yrs37 interviews, 1 written narrativeVarious socio-economic backgrounds Siblings and spouseDeaths occurred mainly in 24 hr care environmentsDeaths facilitated within family home to date N=4

Project Outline

Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

Aims and Objectives

Communicate with carers of people with dementia

Inclusion not exclusion

Carers = experts

Need to provide care people “want” and not care we think we think they “need”

Support development and implementation of guidelines/ directives

Ongoing and continued research needed to facilitate this

Preliminary Analysis Died in hospital environments N= 21

Died in care homes N=13

Died at home N=4

Interview recordings re-visited on several occasions

Transcripts read and re-read on several occasions

Initial coding: 15-30 per transcript

Searched for similarities across allAcademic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

Commonalities/tentative categories

• Knowledge• Intuition• +ve and –ve care• Information• Spirituality• Faith• Death talk• Moving on• Coping strategies• Kindness• Guilt• Carers as experts• Practicalities • Control• Trust• Anger

• Deceit• “Being” with• Communication• Cultural issues• Language issues• Abandonment• Occupation/stimulation• Trauma• Release/relief• Life history• 1st and 2nd death• Religion• Carer stress/burden• Physical health (both)• Finances

Academic palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

Potential Themes Emerging

Communication: ability for everyone to listen (more importantly to “hear” what is said). Vital to know life history of person e.g. loss of a child, war veteran, personal habits and preferences

Support for families: at transitions of care e.g. decision to place relative in care home or admit to hospital, burden of guilt, lies and deceit

Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

Kindness and humanity: appears to outweigh knowledge, examples of excellent care across all settings but also examples of very poor care even within family home, issues with co-ordination of care increasing stress on families, kindness of strangers

“Being with”: support to “be with” the pwd at difficult times, emphasis is on “doing”, when the “doing” is “done” nobody is with the pwd, results in stress for families, isolation for pwd, carers find this difficult but can be supported with finding a way to connect

Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

Knowledge of carers: informal carers believe they have intimate and best knowledge of pwd, however this can be dismissed by formal carers

Knowledge of disease process: knowing when to treat, when to admit to hospital appropriately, when to withdraw, lack of continuity and consistency across settings, uncertainty contributing to stress for carers

Language/cultural issues: differing languages and cultural backgrounds of formal carers impacting upon care and informal carers

Academic palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

THANK YOU !

Jackie Crowther

crowther@liverpool.ac.uk

Tel: 01517948047

Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group

A joined up approach to dealing with dementia palliative care:

Morejoy Saineti, Dementia Palliative Voice Nurse, Housing 21.

Morejoy Saineti

Dementia Voice Nurse

Objectives

•The participants will be familiar with the role of DVN

•The importance of co- working across professional boundaries and care settings will be highlighted

Dementia Voice Nurse

Palliative care for people with Dementia; • Employed By: Housing 21 • Funded By: Kings Fund and Friends• Period: Two years• Borough: London, Westminster

The drivers of the post

End of life Care strategy

Dementia Care Strategy

Carers like Barbra Pointon

Why Palliative care?

A home for life?

Preferred place of death?

The difference between dementia and any other condition during end of life stage

•Capacity to make decision•Communication problems•Behavioural problem versus pain reaction or distress versus pain•Other people making decisions for you•Co-occurring conditions•Coordination of services•Effective advocacy services•Accessible care plans and regular caring services

What Dementia Palliative care does

•Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process•Neither hastens nor postpones death•Relief from pain and other distressing symptoms•Integrates psychological and spiritual aspects of care•Coordinates services •Multi professional support•Support system for the family

DVN First year engagements

•Planning•Networking•Raising awareness•Communication•Partnership working

Source of Referrals

• St John's Hospice 7• Housing 21 4• Social Services 4• CMHT 3• Pembridge Palliative Team (generic) 3• District Nurse 2• St Marys Hospital 2• Butterworth Centre (Continuing Care) 1• 60 Penfold Street (Extra Care) 1• IMPS Team 1• St Charles Hospital 1• Total Referrals  29

What Joint up working does•Reduces waiting time•non bureaucratic referral system•Standardises care plans and practice•Continuity of care•Holistic care•Fast and friendly•Sharing information and expertise•Seamlessness

Examples of Joint working Joint assessments; advanced care planning; team meetings; case discussions; referrals; key working; consultation work; training (bearing in mind Gold Standard frame work)•The person with dementia and family carer •District nurses•GPs•CMHT •Hospice Staff •Nursing home Staff•Admiral nurses•In service teams•IMPS team •Nursing home; Extra care home; e.t.c.

Case Study

91 year old man living in a Dementia extra support unit for 5years

Vascular Dementia colorectal tumour

Social isolation

Return to Ireland

Care pathway

People Involved

• IMCA (independent mental capacity act advocate

• Extra care housing staff• Community nurses• DVN, McMillan nurses• Care manager• In services care teams

Continuing Care Action Plan

Palliation A continuing care package Community McMillan Nurses/ Hospice @ Home Continence assessment. Rapid response Community Nursing ServiceTop up transfusionsBrisker bleedsInfectionsCarers’ awareness / training

Outcome

Discharged from hospital back to the Extra support care homeUnachievable wishes of visiting Ireland due to advanced illnessDied peacefully at home with support from professionals.

DVN Service Success:

•improving quality of life, and quality of dying•improving availability of support, services and equipments •support to Housing 21 and staff from other organizations, •improving staffs’ skills.

How do I access the service?

All it takes is a phone call

Morejoy Saineti is the Dementia Voice Nurse. She is available between 9.00am and 5.00 pm, Monday to

Friday.

Telephone: 0207 641 7694Mobile: 0759 5055544

Email: Morejoy.Saineti@housing21.co.ukFax: 0207 641 1637

Address: Tresham Dementia Services, 27 Tresham Crescent, London, NW8 8TW

How do I access the service?

All it takes is a phone call

Morejoy Saineti is the Dementia Voice Nurse. She is available between 9.00am and 5.00 pm, Monday to

Friday.

Telephone: 0207 641 7694Mobile: 0759 5055544

Email: Morejoy.Saineti@housing21.co.ukFax: 0207 641 1637

Address: Tresham Dementia Services, 27 Tresham Crescent, London, NW8 8TW

Questions?