Written by experts who have extensive experience providing dememtia care, this book provides direction to health care agencies, particularly long-term care agencies, and health care providers on ways to enhance care given to people with late-stage dementia. Although people with mid-stage dementia are served by special care units in long-term care facilities, as these residents deteriorate, they are transferred out of the unit and into a general nursing home unit. These nursing homes are not equipped to deal with palliative needs of end-stage dementia care. The book addresses those needs. With this in mind, Part 1 of the volume, Foundations and Options for Program Development, examines the stages of dementia (late-stage in particular). Other chapters in this section provide background on the hospice movement and hospice concepts; the idea of maintaining personhood, and administration of a Late-Stage Care Unit. Part 2 focuses on treatment approaches for common needs in late-stage dementia: medical and physical care, comprehensive mealtime suggestions, a supportive environment, communications and the fundamentals of care (bathing, grooming, dressing), late-stage dementia behaviours, psychopharmacology; and therapeutic activities. Finally, Part 3, Special Issues in Care, contains chapters on family-centred care, change strategies, legal and ethical issues, program evaluation, and future opportunities. Because there is a definitive need for information and guidance regarding the provision of late-stage dementia care - a growing concern in our aging society - this book will remain current and useful for some time to come. It is geared toward administrators and staff directly involved in providing care, and the wealth of information contained will also appeal to those in academic settings.