Study	Reason for exclusion
Bergh 2012	Not a palliative intervention
Bonner 2014	Carers of people with dementia who have not reached the stage of advanced dementia
Burns 2009	Not a palliative intervention
De Deyn 2004	Not a palliative intervention
Devanand 2012	Not a palliative intervention
Finkel 1995	Not a palliative intervention
Fleischhacker 1986	Not a palliative intervention
Grossberg 2013	Not a palliative intervention
Hager 2014	Not a palliative intervention
Iwasaki 2007	Not a palliative intervention
Kovach 1996	Dementia not staged using a validated functional assessment tool
Kovach 2006	> 80% of study participants not advanced dementia; data not available separately for people with advanced dementia
Kovach 2012	> 80% of study participants not advanced dementia; data not available separately for people with advanced dementia
Mintzer 2006	Not a palliative intervention
Navratilova 2007	Not a palliative intervention
NCT00921297	Not a palliative intervention
Reinhardt 2004	> 80% of study participants not advanced dementia; data not available separately for people with advanced dementia
Shin 2013	Not a palliative intervention
Street 2000	Not a palliative intervention