Seeing the same GP could ease agony for dementia patients

Seeing the same GP could ease agony for dementia patients Seeing the same GP during treatment could prevent dementia patients needing a series of trips to hospital as they near the end of their lives, a study found.

Repeat hospital visits in the final months have previously been linked to poor end-of-life care, delirium and falls. They also cost the NHS vast sums.

Now researchers have found offering dementia patients continuity of care from the same GP may lower the risk.  The Daily Mail

See also:

• Primary care contacts, continuity, identification of palliative care needs, and hospital use: a population-based cohort study in people dying with dementia (open access) British Journal of General Practice