Showing posts with label hospice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospice. Show all posts

Friday, 11 July 2014

Advancing the case for free social care at the end of life

"Last autumn Macmillan exposed the fact that every day around 100 people with cancer die in hospitals in England having said they wanted to die at home."

Can we live with how we're dying? Advancing the case for free social care at the end of life
Macmillan Cancer Support
June 2014

Read more here.

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Global atlas of palliative care at the end of life

"Only 1 in 10 people who need palliative care - that is medical care to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness - is currently receiving it. This unmet need is mapped for the first time in the "Global atlas of palliative care at the end of life", published jointly by the WHO and the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA)."

Access the Atlas here.