Table of contents

Abstracts

• 1 Supporting family carers in best interest decision-making in dementia care at the end of life: findings from a cluster randomised control trial (1 September, 2017)

  Kevin Brazil, Gillian Carter, Chris Cardwell, Mike Clarke, Peter Hudson, Katherine Froggatt, Dorry McLaughlin, Peter Passmore, W George Kernohan
• 2 Sub-optimal care for patients in the out of hours primary care setting at the end of life: a mixed methods study (1 September, 2017)

  Huw Williams, Simon Noble, Joyce Kenkre, Adrian Edwards, Peter Hibbert, Liam Donaldson, Andrew Carson-Stevens
• 3 Conversation analytic study of communication with the relatives and friends of patients in a hospice: study protocol (1 September, 2017)

  Rebecca Anderson, Paddy Stone, Joe Low, Ruth Parry, Adrian Tookman, Philip Lodge, Dori-Anne Finlay, Barbara Wood, Steven Bloch
• 4 Quality of life assessment in palliative care day services (1 September, 2017)

  Mary Armstrong, Martin Dempster, Michael Donnelly, Noleen McCorry, Lisa Graham
• 5 Advance care planning for people with dementia in long term care settings: an explanatory mixed methods study of health care professionals’ and families’ perspectives (1 September, 2017)

  Esther Ruth Beck, Sonja McIlfatrick, Felicity Hanson
• 6 Caregivers’ difficulty rating scale: development and initial validation of a tool to identify unmet needs of indian caregivers (1 September, 2017)

  Tushti Bhardwaj
• 7 Views of future care planning in patients aged over 70 years old and carers: developing a strategy for qualitative research through co-design (1 September, 2017)

  Anna-Maria Bielinska, Stephanie Archer, Julia Riley, Catherine Urch
• 8 Assessing spiritual needs in a hospice setting: all talk and no trousers (1 September, 2017)

  Victoria Bradley, Jessica Gutjahr, Katherine Young, Rhys Dawe
• 9 The opinions of hospice staff and patients towards routine weighing upon admission to an inpatient hospice setting (1 September, 2017)

  Niall Byrne, Jan Codling, Alison Phippen, Jennie Pickard, Samantha Kay
• 10 ’Thinking about you and your loved one’: session developed to support mnd carers in wales as part of the marie curie caring for carers initiative in wales (1 September, 2017)

  Susan S Court
• 11 Caring for patients in a faith based setting: demonstrating a model for ‘hard to reach’ communities and achieving preferred place of death (1 September, 2017)

  Rachel Craig, Adrian Tookman, Faye Gishen
• 12 Exploring experiences of compassion, resilience and self-care in clinical psychologists working in palliative care (1 September, 2017)

  Laura Cramond, Ian Fletcher, Claire Rehan
• 13 What works, for whom and in which circumstances when implementing the namaste advanced dementia care programme in the home setting? (1 September, 2017)

  Sonia Michelle Dalkin, Monique Lhussier, Joanne Atkinson, Nicola Kendall, Sharron Tolman
• 14 Managing uncertainty in care for people with dementia at the end of life: the use of heuristics (1 September, 2017)

  Nathan Davies, Kethakie Lamahewa, Rammya Mathew, Jane Wilcock, Jill Manthorpe, Elizabeth L Sampson, Steve Iliffe
• 15 A model for practice implementation of a person-centred approach to carer assessment and support within palliative care (plan, pilot, train, sustain) (1 September, 2017)

  Janet Diffin, Gail Ewing, Christine Rowland, Gunn Grande
• 16 The significance of intimate relationships at end of life: experiences of young adults with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions (1 September, 2017)

  Sarah Earle, Maddie Blackburn, Alison Cooke
• 17 Improving care and support in advanced copd: six recommendations of the population-based living with breathlessness study (1 September, 2017)

  Morag Farquhar, Gail Ewing, Patrick White, Peter Burge, Ravi Mahadeva, A Carole Gardener, Caroline Moore, Hanne Holt Butcher, Sophie Howson, Sara Booth, Tom Ling
• 18 Constructing the hospice volunteer role: emerging findings from an ethnographic exploration (1 September, 2017)

  Rachel France
• 19 Tackling the rhetoric: an evidence-based support needs tool to enable supportive care in advanced non-malignant disease (1 September, 2017)

  Carole Gardener, Gail Ewing, Morag Farquhar
• 20 Implementation of music therapy in an inpatient hospice setting: a realist evaluation (1 September, 2017)

  Lisa Graham-Wisener, Tracey McConnell, Sam Porter, Jenny Kirkwood, Mike Clarke, Joan Regan, Miriam McKeown, Kerry McGrillen, Naomi Hughes, Joanne Reid
• 21 Exploring the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention for staff in a palliative care setting (1 September, 2017)

  Rebecca C Hill, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Anne Finucane, Michele Kavanagh, Noleen K McCorry, Michael Donnelly, Martin Dempster
• 22 Barriers and facilitators to implementing the carer support needs assessment toolin a community palliative care setting (1 September, 2017)

  Zoe Horseman, Libby Milton, Anne Finucane
• 23 Talking about the future with homeless people with ill health: the need for a different conversation (1 September, 2017)

  Briony F Hudson, Caroline Shulman, Joseph Low, Nigel Hewett, Julian Daley, Sarah Davis, Niamh Brophy, Diana Howard, Bella Vivat, Peter Kennedy, Patrick Stone
• 24 The nordoff robbins music therapy service at marie curie hospice (1 September, 2017)

  Joseph Jezard
• 25 Family caregiver socio-economic status, access to palliative care and patients’ place of death: a health survey for england study (1 September, 2017)

  Miriam Johnson, Victoria Allgar, Hong Chen, Laurie Dunn, Una Macleod, David Currow
• 26 The prognosis in palliative care ii (PIPS2): recruitment data collected during the first year of a multi-centre, prospective, observational cohort study (1 September, 2017)

  Anastasia K Kalpakidou, Chris Todd, Rumana Z Omar, Vaughan Keeley, Jane Griffiths, Victoria Vickerstaff, Patrick Stone
• 27 Palliative care day services operate through therapeutic relationships (1 September, 2017)

  George Kernohan, Kevin Brazil, Jo Coast, Anne Finucane, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Felicity Hasson, Louise Jones, Joanne Jordan, Noleen McCorry, Sonja McIlfatrick
• 28 Do not attempt resuscitation: university of aberdeen student perspectives (1 September, 2017)

  Andreas Koshias, Emma Gray, Graeme Currie, Jennifer Cleland
• 29 Working with dying men in a group setting (1 September, 2017)

  Peter Kravitz
• 30 Development of quality indicators for UK palliative day services (QUALPALUK) (1 September, 2017)

  Noleen K McCorry, Martin Dempster, Sean O’Connor, Kathy Armour, Joanna Coast, Michael Donnelly, Anne Finucane, Joan Fyvie, Louise Jones, George Kernohan, Kathleen Leemans, Paul Perkins
• 31 ’I’m fine’: exploring patient and carer assertions of status in advanced COPD and clinical implications (1 September, 2017)

  Caroline Moore, Anita Carole Gardener, Morag Farquhar, Gail Ewing, Robbie Duschinsky
• 32 Improving patient and public involvement in end of life care research (1 September, 2017)

  Kathy Seddon, Alexandra Murray, Peter Buckle
• 33 The legacy of the northern ireland conflict in palliative care (1 September, 2017)

  Brendan O’Hara
• 34 Stories from the fourth age (1 September, 2017)

  Lucy Pocock, Fiona MacKichan, Francesca Deibel, Lesley Wye
• 35 Carer-administration of as-needed sub-cutaneous medication for breakthrough symptoms in homebased dying patients: a uk study (CARIAD) (1 September, 2017)

  Clare Wilkinson, Marlise Poolman, Jessica Roberts, Bee Wee, Julia Hiscock, Dyfrig Hughes, Annmarie Nelson, Paul Perkins, Rosalynde Johnstone, Liz Reymond, Betty Foster, Julie O’Connor, Sian Jones, Zoe Hoare, Rossela Roberts, Anthony Byrne, Sue Healy, Penney Lewis
• 36 Together to care (1 September, 2017)

  Elizabeth Reed, Jane Berg, Lesley Spencer
• 37 With my family i have to think about them… with the girls [friends] i don’t: the role of friendships in advance care planning (1 September, 2017)

  Sarah Russell
• 38 Understanding learning needs and ways of engaging with web apps: the development of an innovative educational web-based application for the respect process (1 September, 2017)

  Gehan Soosaipillai, Tom Stables, Nadine Pfeifer, Jenny Mooney, Stephanie Archer, Ara Darzi, Lucy Caroline Stirling
• 39 A qualitative study of family carer’s attitudes towards agitation in people with moderate/severe dementia (1 September, 2017)

  Aisling Stringer, Elizabeth Pritty, Anne Laybourne, Francesca La Frenais, Shanlee Higgins, Mary-Jo Doyle, Gerry Leavey, Gill Livingston, Elizabeth Sampson
• 40 Caring for carers: a social worker and nurse-led hospice model (1 September, 2017)

  Glyn Thomas, Louise Harris, Liz Thomas, Jason Davidson, Faye Gishen
• 41 Solstice: sancuso in supportive and palliative care; a feasibility study in patients with cancer and refractory nausea and vomiting (1 September, 2017)

  Shaun Villa, Richard Berman, Emma Dean, Louise Carter
• 42 ’Who cares and what matters?’: exploring end of life priorities of homeless adults in the uk (1 September, 2017)

  Wendy Ann Webb, Theresa Mitchell, Brian Nyatanga, Paul Snelling
• 43 A systematic review and critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the reporting of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions in UK national broadsheet and tabloid newspapers (1 September, 2017)

  Alice E Gray, Katherine E Sleeman, Katherine Bristowe
• 44 Marie curie echo network: an innovative practice development initiative (1 September, 2017)

  Lyndsay Cassidy, Paula Heneghan, Eamon O’Kane
• 45 Programme (LCADP) impact and results of a palliative education initiative: lothian care assistant development (1 September, 2017)

  Lyndsay Cassidy, Niall Kieran
• 46 An integrated pathway to access medicines for the palliative care patient in crisis in the out-of-hours period (1 September, 2017)

  Gemma Donovan, Stephen Foster, Marc Herscovitz, Andrew Griffiths, Denise Slark
• 47 The wow consultation (1 September, 2017)

  Sheonad Laidlaw, Emma Carduff
• 48 Findings from a scoping exercise of adult acute hospital trusts in england recording decisions about treatment escalation for those at risk of deterioration at the end of life (1 September, 2017)

  Susi Lund, Amanda Cummings, Carl May, Alison Richardson, Natasha Campling, Michelle Myall
• 49 ’Pic’ your patient: development of a multi-professional handover tool (1 September, 2017)

  Laura Chapman, Mark Mills, Claire Robinson
• 50 A multi-professional educational intervention to improve and sustain respondents’ confidence to deliver palliative care: a mixed methods study (1 September, 2017)

  Elizabeth Reed, Jennifer Todd, Clair Sadler, Jane Berg, Caroline Lucas, Sally Lawton, Robert Grant, Max Watson
• 51 Improving care out of hours by reducing remote prescriptions: a pharmacy-led intervention (1 September, 2017)

  Ronika Patel, Abbas Shafqat, Faye Gishan, Anna Weil
• 52 What is current practice when using sedative medication at the end of life in a london hospice and teaching hospital? a mixed methods investigation for i-can-care (1 September, 2017)

  Bella Vivat, Jane Harrington, Lucy Bemand-Qureshi, Sarah Davis, Patrick Stone
• 53 Compassionate communities in north wales: a service evaluation (1 September, 2017)

  Bethany Watt, Julia Hiscock, Marlise Poolman, Tracy Livingstone
• 54 Improving assessment of pain in palliative care (1 September, 2017)

  Gusa Hall, Amanda Gregory
• 55 The impact of emotional disclosure as a form of therapeutic intervention on health-related outcomes and on the well-being of people with advanced disease: a systematic review (1 September, 2017)

  Nuriye Kupeli, Georgia Chatzitheodorou, Bridget Candy
• 56 Educational interventions for improving knowledge of dementia progression and the mental health of family carers: a systematic review (1 September, 2017)

  Cheuk Yan Lee, Kirsten Moore, Bridget Candy, Liz Sampson
• 57 Barriers and facilitators to implementation of end of life care policy in the acute hospital setting in england: a systematic review (1 September, 2017)

  Nadine Murigu
• 58 Assessing and managing constipation for patients receiving palliative care in a hospice setting: a systematic review of the literature (1 September, 2017)

  Sonja McIlfatrick, Deborah Preshaw, Felicity Hasson, Emma Carduff, Mike Clarke, Jo Coast, Claire Ferguson, Anne Finucane, Lisa Graham, Philip Larkin, Noleen McCorry, Paul Slater, Max Watson, Eileen Wright
• 59 Arts-based palliative care training, education and staff development: a scoping review (1 September, 2017)

  Benjamin Mark Turton, Sion Williams, Christopher R Burton, Lynne Williams
• 60 Can the ‘surprise question‘ be used to correctly identify people nearing the end of life?: a review (1 September, 2017)

  Victoria Vickerstaff, Nicola White, Nuriye Kupeli, Patrick Stone