End-of-life care on screen: the fictionalisation of palliative care

Exploring the role of sexuality and intimacy in palliative care: a need for holistic support

Addressing the needs of patients with severe mental illnesses

Power of reminiscence

Navigating death talk in a changing society

It is good to talk. This expression has adorned countless appeals, advertisements, posters, podcasts and inspirational GIFs, all aiming to sell an idea, product, or service, build connections, boost...

Be prepared for future pandemics

It is not unreasonable to expect that given the unavoidability and inevitability (of death, at least), the UK, as a well-developed, relatively rich and stable Western economy, with a historically...

Promises, promises

It is widely accepted that the modern hospice movement was founded 50 years ago with St Christopher's Hospice in 1967. Like any another quinquagenarian may attest, any and/or many years of preceding...

Sexual bereavement: a forgotten concept

The death of a partner can lead to sexual loss, grief and bereavement. Adults aged over 65 years make up between 34–48% of widowed adults across the globe (Radosh and Simkin, 2016); these individuals...

Disadvantaged dying in palliative care

It remains true that strongly held religious and cultural beliefs can prevent people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds from accessing palliative care. However, it also remains true...

Preparing healthcare students for palliative care is essential

The World Health Organization (WHO) is clear about what constitutes palliative care and its goals: ‘Palliative care is a crucial part of integrated, people-centred health services. Relieving serious...

The changing nature of dying: lessons from the pandemic

The pandemic has pushed death rituals to resemble what happened with industrialisation where death was, in most families, removed from the home set up to institutions where strangers cared for the...

Language matters in death and dying

It has become customary now that each year the Dying Matters campaign by Hospice UK dedicate a Dying Matters awareness week in May encouraging people across the globe to talk about death and dying....