The needs and preferences of people with dementia can be met and their autonomy from diagnosis to the end of life respected through integrated, culturally-appropriate, person-centred, community-based health, psycho-social, long-term care and support services and, where appropriate, the inputs of families and carers.

Identifies the number of people with dementia who receive supports for palliative and end-of-life care in a community-based setting.Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care: - provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms; - affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;- intends neither to hasten or postpone death; - integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care; - offers a support system to help patient's live as actively as possible until death; - offers a support system to help the family cope during the patients illness and in their own bereavement; - uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated; - will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness; - is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.

Inventory of currently implemented and available services and supports for people with dementia provided by the national authority's response

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Approximately how many people with dementia received this service in your country?