This critical review interrogates what we know about how poverty and deprivation impact
people at the end of life and what more we need to uncover. While we know that people in …

Over the last decade, policies in both the UK and many other countries have promoted the
opportunity for patients at the end of life to be able to choose where to die. Central to this is …

There has been a systematic and largely unconscious neglect of gender in palliative care
research, practice and policy. This is despite significant, although previously uncollated …

Background: Heart failure has high mortality and is linked to substantial burden for patients,
carers and health care systems. Patients with chronic heart failure frequently experience …

Background Informal caregivers represent the foundation of the palliative care workforce
and are the main providers of end of life care. Financial pressures are among the most …

Palliative and end of life care researchers are being issued 'wake up'calls that they need to
start adopting an equity framework and pay more attention to how the social determinants of …

Background How quality in healthcare is measured shapes care provision, including how
and what care is delivered. In end-of-life care, appropriate measurement can facilitate …

Background Home death is one of the key performance indicators of the quality of palliative
care service delivery. Such a measure has direct implications on everyone involved at the …

Background Enabling death at home remains an important priority in end-of-life care policy.
However, hospital continues to be a more prevalent place of death than home in the UK …

Background: Hospital admissions for end-of-life patients, particularly those who die shortly
after being admitted, are recognised to be an international policy problem. How patients …