I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to figure out the deal with the home and community based care (HCBC) I’ve been told was at the heart of palliative care here. 1,049 more words
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How many people will need palliative care in 2040? Past trends, future projections and implications for services
Source: BMC Medicine 2017; 15 (1): 102
Date of publication: May 2017
Publication type: Journal Article
In a nutshell: This article projects that the number of people requiring palliative care over the next 25 years is likely to increase substantially, requiring a shift in healthcare priorities in England and Wales. 33 more words
Immoral or Merciful? Canadian Doctors Divided on Medically Assisted Death — Longreads
Some doctors are struggling with allowing Canadians to die on their own terms.
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Immoral or Merciful? Canadian Doctors Divided on Medically Assisted Death
Before assisted suicide was legal in Canada, there was a secret society devoted to helping Canadians end their lives on their own terms. As Nicholas Hune-Brown… 370 more words
An Interview with an Assisted Suicide Doctor
It’s not often that we get a glimpse into the assisted suicide movement from the perspective of a medical professional who actually participates in terminating the lives of the terminally ill. 864 more words
Wolfson Foundation – Health and Disability Grants Programme - July 2017 (UK)
The Wolfson Foundation has announced that the next closing date for stage 1 applications to its Health and Disability Grants Programme is the 1st July 2017. 127 more words
Listening to the dying and giving them a voice too: The emerging role of the Death Doula
There are two types of people in this world: Those who accept they and the people they love will die, and those who don’t.
It’s the latter who don’t want to talk about the inevitable and who label any such discussion as morbid. 684 more words
