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Place of death and circumstances of dying. Studies in a metropolitan, national and international context
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Place of death statistics became a symbol of the social movements for palliative care and
dignified dying that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK and the USA criticizing
the medicalization of terminal illness and death and the inhumane curative care approach
at the end of many people's lives. These movements strived for a palliative and humane
approach of end-of-life care relieving suffering and respecting the choices and increasing
autonomy of the dying to guarantee a death in dignity.
In this dissertation place of death is looked at as a way of considering the quality of endof-
life care and the circumstances of death and dying cross-nationally in specific disease
groups such as cancer and dementia-related diseases, in metropolitan populations as
compared with nonmetropolitan populations, and to evaluate health care policies with
respect to palliative care services and care for the elderly.
dignified dying that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK and the USA criticizing
the medicalization of terminal illness and death and the inhumane curative care approach
at the end of many people's lives. These movements strived for a palliative and humane
approach of end-of-life care relieving suffering and respecting the choices and increasing
autonomy of the dying to guarantee a death in dignity.
In this dissertation place of death is looked at as a way of considering the quality of endof-
life care and the circumstances of death and dying cross-nationally in specific disease
groups such as cancer and dementia-related diseases, in metropolitan populations as
compared with nonmetropolitan populations, and to evaluate health care policies with
respect to palliative care services and care for the elderly.
Number of pages: 270
ISBN:978-90-5487-911-4
Publication year:2011
Keywords:place of death