Care for the dying has not improved in 70 years, cancer charity report concludes
Loneliness continues to afflict the majority of people at the end of their life, according to a report that found palliative care has not improved in 70 years.
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Loneliness continues to afflict the majority of people at the end of their life, according to a report that found palliative care has not improved in 70 years.
Loneliness afflicts the majority of people at the end of their life, according to a report that found palliative care has not improved in 70 years.
Researchers from Glasgow's Dying in the Margins project are pushing MSPs to commit more resources to terminally ill Scots in poverty.
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Terminally-ill patients facing financial hardship allowed a photographer to record their final weeks.