A study led by the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London has found that while critical care admissions for people with dementia are going down, they are increasing during the last year of life.
The study included people with dementia identified from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, which covers four South London boroughs .units has decreased over the years, there is a small increase in admissions for people with dementia in the last year of life. This study does not compare these trends with critical care admissions data for people without dementia in their last year of life.
In the first study of its kind, the Empowering Better End of Life Care team at King's College London and University College London were able to track critical care admissions of people with dementia in South London by linking data from the South London and Maudsley's Clinical Record Interactive Search with national hospital records.
Robert Stewart, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology & Clinical Informatics, King's College London, and Academic Lead for the NIHR Maudsley BRC's Clinical Record Interactive Search added,"While recognition of dementia by clinical teams has increased, skills and knowledge to deliver care for those who may be approaching the end of life are often lacking."
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