Supporting people to live well until the end of life

End of life care

Supporting people with complex and life-limiting conditions to remain comfortable, involved, and connected as their needs change.

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Who we support

End-of-life care looks different for every person and can begin at different points in someone’s care journey.

We support adults with complex and life-limiting conditions who require ongoing nursing and clinical care. This can include people who:

Have progressive or life-limiting conditions

Including neurological conditions, physical disabilities, complex respiratory conditions, cancer, and multiple health conditions.

Have increasing nursing and clinical needs

Including increasing frailty or dependency, complex medication, respiratory, nutritional, mobility, and postural needs.

Require complex symptom management

Including support with pain, breathlessness, agitation, nausea, respiratory secretions, and other distressing symptoms.

Are approaching the end of life

Including people in the last months, weeks, or days of life, with care adapting as their needs, priorities, and wishes change.

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When someone might receive end of life care with us

People may already live with us when their needs progress, or move to us specifically for palliative or end of life care

This might include someone:

  • moving from their own home as nursing needs increase
  • moving from hospital or hospice where they would prefer a community-based care home
  • moving from another care setting that can no longer meet their needs.

Where appropriate, our 24-hour nursing care can help people remain in a comfortable, familiar home environment as they approach the end of life.

Our approach to end of life care

Our nurse-led care homes provide 24-hour care that supports the whole person – helping them remain comfortable, maintain choice and dignity, and spend meaningful time with the people they love in a place that feels like home.

24-hour nursing care

Responsive nursing care and clinical oversight as health and care needs change.

Comfort and symptom management

Individualised support with pain, breathlessness, agitation, nausea, and other symptoms.

Multidisciplinary approach

Nurses working alongside GPs, palliative care teams, hospices, therapists, and other professionals.

Care shaped around the person

Care guided by each person’s wishes, preferences, values, relationships, and priorities.

Planning ahead

Advance and anticipatory care planning to understand wishes and prepare for changing needs.

Supporting families

Keeping the people important to someone informed, involved, and supported in line with the person’s wishes.

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Living well until the end of life

A life-limiting condition doesn’t change who someone is.

People still have relationships, interests, routines, preferences, and things that bring them comfort and joy.

Our care supports people to live as fully and meaningfully as possible, spending time with family and friends, continuing familiar routines and interests, and remaining involved in decisions about their lives.


Talk to us about end of life care

Our Referrals Team can help you understand whether an Exemplar Health Care home can meet someone’s complex palliative or end of life care needs.

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