Is Dementia a Leading Cause of Death?
This week, Office for National Statistics figures (1) revealed that dementia has overtaken heart disease as the biggest cause of …
Category Archives: Death
End of Life Care: report from the SCWRU conference
The Annual Joint Conference of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit and Making Research Count at King’s College London and …
Why is it important to study late life widowhood?
I’ve previously written about gay spousal bereavement (https://ageingissues.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/gay-partner-bereavement/). But, in fact, I’ve been studying late life widowhood and bereavement more …
Health Insurance in Action: Why We Need the NHS
I am visiting a small city in New York State. Once one of the greatest cities in the US, it …
Gay Partner bereavement
When somebody asks what we are researching and we say gay bereavement nearly everyone who we have spoken to stops …
