Palliative Care through a Dementia Lens (with Dr. Matt Malone)

Early delivery of palliative care for our person with dementia can reduce the number of unnecessary hospital admissions and the use of health services, delivering a comfort approach to care. We talk with Dr. Matt Malone, a geriatric psychiatrist at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute to learn more about this approach and why it’s so important to consider goals of care for our person. We learn that palliative care isn’t just for life-limiting illness, but something that can be a part of a disease process. He talks about how to help families make the least-worst decision to balance risks vs. benefits to meet an individual’s goal for care.