Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly
by
Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, Jaydeep Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines. Such ‘medicalised death’ entails huge psychological, social and financial costs for both patients and their caregivers. There are also many who are dying in abject neglect. However, Government...