We have allowed policy responses to death, dying and bereavement to drift over multiple decades. This has led to out of date policy, overlaps and inadequate future-proofing. Now is the time to act to rectify this neglect in light of the forthcoming rise in the death rate, according to an Institute for Policy Research Policy brief published today entitled Death, Dying and Devolution. In part a result of the ageing of the population - meaning that the social and economic consequences of death are yet to fully hit a generation - policymakers need to wake up to the scale of the issues that face them when it comes to supporting dying and bereavement. With more than 500,000 people across the UK dying a year, we can reasonably…

Source: The Times September 11, 2017 23:26 UTC