Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care

The title of Lloyd-Williams' book makes for an interesting reflection. Palliative care was born with the hospice movement as a response to a medical service that seemed unable or unwilling to care adequately for dying people and their families, so the concept of psychosocial issues should be embedded in it. However, increasing subspecialisation and advances in medical technology mean that those original values are at risk of disappearing. It is therefore encouraging …