ReviewPalliative care and social practice2021
The impact of poverty and deprivation at the end of life: a critical review.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- First generation migrants' experiences of terminal illness: a systematic review of diasporic dying.BMC palliative care · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review on the impact of financial insecurity on the physical and psychological well-being for people living with terminal illness.Palliative medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- 'I dream of the airplane, but I cannot board it': Exploring end-of-life aspirations with people who have lived experiences of homelessness.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Visually representing total pain at the end of life through photovoice.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- Family participation in dignity interventions for patients with cancer receiving palliative care: A scoping review.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Review
- Syndemics of Antimicrobial Resistance: Non-communicable Diseases, Social Deprivation, and the Rise of Multidrug-Resistant Infections.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2025Article
- The impact of area deprivation on access to and utilization of health services in the last year of life: A retrospective population-based cohort study.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- How, when and why is emotional support delivered using videoconferencing by adult palliative care services successful? A realist synthesis.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Review
- The central role of housing key workers in supporting healthcare interactions for people experiencing homelessness and implications for palliative care: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- 'Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care': A Qualitative Study of Patient and Public Experiences and Anticipation of Death and Dying.Qualitative health research · 2024Article
- Addressing hidden tensions and grey areas of general practice: a qualitative study of the experiences of newly qualified GPs attending a course on generalist medicine.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024Article
- Description and Analysis of Research on Death and Dying during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Published in Nursing Journals Indexed in SCOPUS.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- "The great escape": how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic Status, Palliative Care, and Death at Home Among Patients With Cancer Before and During COVID-19.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure on medicines among adults in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Social Deprivation and End-of-Life Care Use Among Adults With Cancer.JCO oncology practice · 2024Article
- The ideal and the real: Patient and bereaved family caregiver perspectives on the significance of place of death.Death studies · 2024Article
- 'Someone must do it': multiple views on family's role in end-of-life care - an international qualitative study.Palliative care and social practice · 2024Article
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Abstract
This critical review interrogates what we know about how poverty and deprivation impact people at the end of life and what more we need to uncover. While we know that people in economically resource-rich countries who experience poverty and deprivation over the life course are likely to die younger, with increased co-morbidities, palliative care researchers are beginning to establish a full picture of the disproportionate impact of poverty on how, when and where we die. This is something the Covid-19 pandemic has further illustrated. Our article uses a critical social science lens to investigate an eclectic range of literature addressing health inequities and is focused on poverty and deprivation at the end of life. Our aim was to see if we could shed new light on the myriad ways in which experiences of poverty shape the end of people's lives. We start by exploring the definitions and language of poverty while acknowledging the multiple intersecting identities that produce privilege. We then discuss poverty and deprivation as a context for the nature of palliative care need and overall end-of-life circumstances. In particular, we explore: total pain; choice at the end of life; access to palliative care; and family caregiving. Overall, we argue that in addressing the effects of poverty and deprivation on end-of-life experiences, there is a need to recognise not just socio-economic injustice but also cultural and symbolic injustice. Too often, a deficit-based approach is adopted which both 'Others' those living with poverty and renders invisible the strategies and resilience they develop to support themselves, their families and communities. We conclude with some recommendations for future research, highlighting in particular the need to amplify the voices of people with lived experience of poverty regarding palliative and end-of-life care.
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