End-of-life care : promoting comfort, choice and well-being for older people / Jane Seymour...[et al.].

1. Definitions, policies and practices: the broader context of end-of-life care:- Mortality in the UK: the general picture--Key terms--How do palliative care and gerontological care relate?--Key policy issues fro older people: a synthesis of their implications for end-of life care--Summary and recommendations-- 2. Patterns, circumstances and experiences of end of life care among older people:- Changes in the demography of ageing--Implications for health and illness--Older adults and chronic illness--Implications for the provision of help and care at home--Facing death in old age: the broad picture--Older adults\' last year of life: quality of life, needs and symptoms--Dementia--Heart failure--Facing death in late old age: death keeps on taking little bits of me--Summary and recommendations-- 3. \'Places\' of care at the end of life:- Home care--Care homes--Hospitals and end-of-life care--Day care--Iniatives to improve end-of-life care in all settings--Summary and recommendations--4. Communication and decision making at the end of life:- Do older people want to talk?--Views about the \'good death\'--To whom to talk?--Attitudes to death and dying--Experiences of bereavement--Spiritualisty , religion and other existential issues--Whose voices are missing?--Listening to older people--Anticipating and talking about end-of-life decisions--Conclusion--Summary and recommendations--5. Conclusion and recommendations:- Conclusion--Recommendations.