Living with Ageing and Dying: Palliative and End of Life Care for Older People

by Christine Ingleton

Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority. Indeed, there is an urgent need to improve the experiences of older people at the end of life, given that they have been identified as the 'disadvantaged dying'. To date, models of care
are underpinned by the ideals of specialist palliative care which were developed to meet the needs of predominantly middle-aged and 'young old' people, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199569932
• ISBN13: 9780199569939
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"