4. Prioritizing care goals

the image shows the different goals of dementia care at the various stages of dementia including before dementia is diagnosed

This is another diagram that represents dementia care.

This diagram shows dementia care goals and priorities throughout the course of dementia. It shows that in Early/ Middle stage dementia Quality of Life is the priority but in Later Stage ‘Maximising Comfort ‘is the main goal.

These are also the goals identified by Palliative Care that we talked about in Unit 1

These goals of care include a Person-centred care approach, which recognises the needs and perspectives of the person with dementia as being most important. We have explored this already in the Book: Introduction, page 3 on Person-centred care.