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The Continuum of Ageing and Dying
The Continuum of Ageing and Dying
The programme sets out the demographic, epidemiological, and policy dimensions of ageing towards the end of life including decline, dependency, and death. It will examine how super-ageing centenarians are creating a ‘5th age’.
It will situate associated age-related care needs in the global context, critically considering why dying in old age continues to be neglected in research, policy and practice.
It will engage with differing care settings, such as home, hospital, care home, and hospice, the development of palliative care, and the historical, social, and cultural changes to expectations of healthy ageing, caregiving, and autonomy in late life.
It will also examine core elements, debates and models of ageing into end of life care within selected international case studies.
Who will you learn with?
I am a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow with the End of Life Studies Group at the University of Glasgow. I am a medical anthropologist who is interested in interdisciplinary research on the end of life.
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