Living with ageing and dying palliative and end of life care for older people amazonde gott merryn ingleton christine fremdsprachige bucher. The quote failing to recognise dying as a part of ageing and later life is also to fail to offer the care specific to the dying experience could become the motto in palliative care the authors propose that life is now something that is biologised that is that science will provide the solution for death and ageing is seen as a problem with a potential technological solution rather than a natural process the thought that older people may turn to assistive dying as a result of . Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority indeed there is an urgent need to improve the experiences of older people at the end of life given that they have been identified as the disadvantaged dying to date models of care are underpinned by the ideals of specialist palliative care which were developed to meet the needs of . Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority indeed there is an urgent need to improve the experiences of older people at the end of life given that they have been identified as the disadvantaged dying. Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority indeed there is an urgent need to improve the experiences of older people at the end of life given that they have been identified as the disadvantaged dying to date models of care are underpinned by the ideals of specialist palliative care which were developed to meet the needs of predominantly middle aged and young old people and evidence suggests these may not be