The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its timely advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care, today more necessary than ever.

There is a global public debate going on about care for the elderly and the dying, and what is meant by good quality palliative care. This book begins with the

Providing much-needed focus on hospice projects in the context of unprecedented rates of societal ageing, this new reference book presents an overview of major

Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care. It proposes that the

There is a global public debate going on about care for the elderly and the dying, and what is meant by good quality palliative care. This book begins with the