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The power of touch

17 Jun 2021

As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so important...

Study identifies factors linked to dying comfortably for the very old

05 Oct 2017

Very old people are more likely to die comfortably if they die in a care home or at home, compared with dying in a hospital, suggests a new study from...

Public attitudes towards end-of-life care in progressive neurological illness are conflicted, study reveals

05 Apr 2017

Public attitudes in UK and USA reveal support both for life-sustaining interventions and for measures to enable peaceful death in progressive...

Opinion: Here’s what people in their 90s really think about death

19 May 2016

Jane Fleming (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) discusses attitudes to death among the very old.

“It’s not worth me having a long-life lightbulb”: Attitudes to death among the very old

05 Apr 2016

Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the...

‘Missing’ data complicate picture of where patients choose to die

10 Nov 2015

An NIHR-funded study from the University of Cambridge has raised questions about the widely-held assumption that most patients at the end of their...

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The power of touch

Study identifies factors linked to dying comfortably for the very old

Public attitudes towards end-of-life care in progressive neurological illness are conflicted, study reveals

Opinion: Here’s what people in their 90s really think about death

“It’s not worth me having a long-life lightbulb”: Attitudes to death among the very old

‘Missing’ data complicate picture of where patients choose to die

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