The aim of this guidance series is to support clinicians and others to consider the needs of frail older people as they move towards the end of their lives and help them to provide high quality care.
This chapter collates relevant external resources and signposting links for easy reference. Please click here to view the other chapters in this series.
Advance Care Planning links
Care homes links
Community settings links
Continence care links
Dementia links
End of life care and dementia - BGS
Delirium links
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NICE Guidance: Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management
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Delirium information for patients and families: Royal College of Psychiatrists
Dysphagia links
Falls links
Identification and prognostication links
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Gold Standards Framework - Proactive Identification Guidance
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BGS Blog: The Paper Boat - Trisha Cantley
Last days of life links
Law and ethics links
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Beachamp T, Childress J. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press 7th Edition; 2012.
Legal framework
Codes of practice
Medicines management links
Nutrition links
Pain links
Psychological support links
Prisons links
Rehabilitation links
Social support links
Spiritual and cultural issues links
Urgent care needs links
Nation-specific resources
England
- NHS Long Term Plan
- Healthy Ageing
- Healthy Caring Guides
- Safe and well visits - Fire and rescue service
- Personalised care planning
- Toolkit for General practice in supporting older people living with frailty
- Ambitions for palliative and end of life care: a national framework for local action 2015-20
- End of Life Care six point commitment
- Comprehensive Personalised Care Model budgets
Wales
- Healthier Wales
- Written Statement on Advance Care Planning
- Advance Care Planning
- All-Wales Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR)
- TalkCPR
- A serious illness conversation training programme
- Byw Nawr to help people talk more openly about dying, death and bereavement
- Future Care Planning
- Electronic patient record
- NICE guidelines on ACP
- ACP defined in a white paper by the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)
Scotland
- Strategic Framework for Action for Palliative and end of life care
- Implementation of Strategic Framework for Action for Palliative and end of life care
- Quality outcome measure 10 focused on last 6 months
- Living well communities
- Strategic Commissioning of Palliative and End of Life Care by Integration Authorities
- A Road Less Lonely
