Galvani, Sarah (2020) Offering the best death possible: supporting people using substances at the end of life. Addiction, 115, (3), pp. 391-392. doi: 10.1111/add.14779.
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Editorial.
People are living longer with manifold social and health‐care needs, and by 2060 it is forecast that 48 million people world‐wide will need, but will die without, palliative care at their end of lives, an increase of 87% from 2016. Practice‐based reports suggest that an increasing number of these people will be using substances and there will not be enough palliative services to cope. Unfortunately, empirical evidence to underpin practice development is scarce.....
P Demography, epidemiology, and history > Population dynamics > Substance related mortality / death
T Demographic characteristics > Person who uses substances (user / experience)
VA Geographic area > International
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