Quality palliative care for people living with dementia

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 health and social care, biology and chemistry.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of nursing researcher Dr Nisha Sutherland, of Lakehead University in Canada, who is using qualitative research methods to explore how end-of-life decision-making for long-term care home residents with dementia can be just and inclusive.
• This resource also contains an interview with Nisha, providing an insight into careers in nursing research.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Nisha’s research, and tasks them to think about how they would allocate funds to improve healthcare provision.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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