Improving care at the end of life should be a priority in the UK.
That is the opinion of the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), which has claimed that the healthcare workforce needs to be well trained to help people receive dignified care.
Simon Chapman, director of policy, ethics and parliamentary affairs at the council, said: "NCPC believes that all health and social care professionals should have core training in palliative care both before they are registered and as part of their continuing professional development.
"Almost all health and social care professionals, at some stage, provide care to dying people and too many of them are having to do that without having had sufficient training."
According to a study by the National Audit Office in June this year, the NHS and social care services are failing to meet the basic needs of many people who are approaching the end of their lives.
Equity release schemes could be one way you could help older relatives gain better access to end of life care, or it could even be used to purchase private medical treatments.
Written by Christian O’Leary
