Dying to get home

Insect Navigation: How Do Wasps Get Home?

Bees and wasps are famous for many things, including elaborate flights to learn where their nest is. A new study provides precise, three-dimensional details of a wasp's head and body movements during such flights and reconstructs what the wasp sees.

Senioritis: why elderly federal inmates are literally dying to get out of prison.

One Chance to Get it Right: understanding the new guidance for care of the dying person.

BACKGROUND Following criticism of the Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway (LCP), widely used to guide care of dying people in British health-care settings, the UK Government set up an independent review which in 2013 recommended that use of the LCP be discontinued. In response, the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, a coalition of a wide range of stakeholders, recently published ...

The perspectives of bereaved family carers on dying at home: the study protocol of ‘unpacking the home: family carers’ reflections on dying at home

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Recent end of life care policy prioritises patient choice over place of care and in particular promotes dying at home. This policy is predicated on the assumption that there are family carers able and willing to provide care for the dying person. Through the accounts of bereaved family members, the 'Unpacking the home' study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of 'ho...

Dying epistemologies: an analysis of home death and its critique

Within the debate between medical and health geographers there are often calls for methodological and philosophical conciliation. The purpose of this paper is to detail some of the epistemological difficulties in ever achieving that aim. We do so by offering a foundational scientific analysis of home death in Washington State, and then turning to a postmedical deconstruction of that scholarship...