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Cancer patient Steve Evans on death and dying

Media Watch: Hospice, Palliative Care and End of Life News

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Cancer patient Steve Evans on death and dying

By BBC News, May 13th 2013 Death is still a subject not everyone is happy to discuss, according to research from the Dying Matters Coalit...

Media Watch: Hospice, Palliative Care and End of Life News

Media Watch is distributed to colleagues active or with a special interest in hospice, palliative care and end-of-life issues. Dow...

Living on a budget: Readers' stories

By BBC News, May 9th 2013 A recent article about how little money someone can realistically live on generated a big response f...

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Omega Network Bulletin May 2013

I have dementia and would sign up for a police tracking device

Helping children to cope with the pain of a parent's death

Queen's Speech - Coalition reaches out to women with pensions and new rights for carers - if councils can afford it

Shropshire Disability Network Newsletter May 2013

Government launches care comparison website

Is modern life making us lonely?

Free respite holidays for disabled people and their families

Google launches tool to determine data use after death

Council Worker Commended For Care Work

Should everybody get paid bereavement leave?

I Am Breathing

Millions stop work to be carers, survey indicates

Living longer better

Bad sleep 'dramatically' alters body

Ride for Omega Care Feb 2013

Families Still at Breaking Point

GPs refer most cancers 'after one or two visits'

Local charity wins more support to combat loneliness from local businesses

Shropshire Disability Network Newsletter February 2013

Is this the loneliest generation?

Carers Trust eNewsletter January 2013

A Point of View: The biggest decision

Andrew Marr: Why do healthy people have strokes?

Welfare plans: Your benefits may be lower than expected

Early death 'more likely in solo artists'

How did pound shops change the UK?

Viewpoint: Does deafness contribute to dementia?

Shropshire Disability Network Newsletter December 2012

Amour (12A): Very moving, but ever so depressing

The strange art of death

Food industry and supermarkets back healthy eating drive

Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia... a report on progress

NHS Self Care Week 12th-18th November 2012

Views sought on strengthening NHS Constitution

Liverpool Care Pathway: Minister will listen to concerns

The Only Way Out Is Through

Skipping breakfast primes the brain to seek out fat

Is the benefit system too baffling to be solved?

Social care keeps people out of hospital at end of life, finds study

One in six over-50s are 'socially isolated' with few hobbies or engagement with society

One woman's lonely death on the NHS's 'care pathway' to the grave

Shropshire Disability Network Newsletter October 2012

Tony Nicklinson right-to-die refused Court of Appeal hearing

When Grandad became a little boy

My bucket list: deciding what to do before I die

Joan Bakewell: 'Am I drinking too much in old age?'

The challenges of caregiving: Guardian readers respond

Wolverhampton carers needed for learning disability consultation

NBFA Summer 2012 Newsletter

Mild mental illness 'raises risk of premature death'

Doctor who held his own 'wake' after being diagnosed with terminal cancer beats disease after taking disused drug

'Mum made sandwiches for imaginary friends and thought there was a little girl trapped in the radiator': Martin Slevin lifts the lid on living with Alzheimer's

Annual festival plans to celebrate the art of ageing

Call for national system for monitoring vital signs

Britons failing to reach five-a-day fruit and veg goal

Wolverhampton LINk 2012 Care / Nursing Home Survey

Radio 4 Profiles Hospice Pioneer

Warning over 'low prescribing' for elderly

Crackdown on care visit clock-watchers: Pensioners will be able to ask for services that suit them

Bereavement Survey Published

How to live beyond 100

Alzheimer's Society: Participants in London needed to help improve website

Have a care for the carers forced to give up work

Almost half of unpaid carers risking their health, survey shows

'Stop opposing assisted dying' - BMJ

Satisfaction in NHS plummets due to concern over government reforms

Carers of relatives in England to get legal rights

Why I let my husband die

Failure and Rescue

One fan's mission to Lars

Should we stop calling people 'overweight'?

Mortality among inpatients with diabetes

Surge in calls to mental health helplines

Cannes 2012: Amour ? review

New chief coroner to overhaul inquests

A big day for ... The People's Choice

Hopsice: Grief, Depression and the DSM -- Take Two

Why Dying Is Different for Doctors

Having the 'Last Laugh'

Sticking with you: carers in the spotlight

Dying Matters: reflections on death ? in pictures

Boat Trip for Wolverhampton Carers

NHS Commissioning Board names 35 CCGs seeking first-wave authorisation

Lessons from Toronto?s Jackie Smith as she dies of cancer

GPs speak out over ?inferior service? offered to patients with learning disabilities

His Neighbor?s Keeper ? and Chronicler

Forum Awards First Community Champion

Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor?s eyes

Ann Thwaite: Why I was happy when my parents died

Personalisation 'wrongly used to devalue social carers'

Top five regrets of the dying

The Death and Dying Series Part One: How Do You Relate to Death?

DLA: your video stories of living with disability benefits

NHS Confederation: Hospital-based care 'must change'

DH maps NHS variation in care

Financial abuse of dementia sufferers is rife, warns charity

Burstow: Users to shape new online care ratings system

Rise in 'paupers' funerals' among elderly people

Home care often fails to meet older people?s basic human rights, says inquiry

Healthcare regulator comes under fire

The Topic of Cancer

?Landmark Victory? For Disabled Victims In High Court Battle For Justice

'Age discrimination within NHS' leaves elderly neglected

Report criticises Winterbourne View care contracts

Look out for dementia warning signs, families urged

Basic care given to elderly in hospital 'alarming'

'Shame on us nurses'

Scope says disabled people 'could lose vital benefits'

My father died because of lack of care

Our market-shaped way of life has no time for the elderly or the art of caring

Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders

Meet the brain donors

Real-life Jedi: Pushing the limits of mind control

Ten years of war, 10 years of inquests

Family help Cardiff Uni find motor neurone disease gene

Terminally ill people warned over possible benefit cut

Philip Gould: 'If you accept death, fear disappears'

Right Said Fred's Richard Fairbrass: Caring for my dying friend made me realise there is more to life than hit records

Millions of malnourished 'go unnoticed'

Alistair the Optimist on TV

Nursing is no longer the caring profession

Nurofen Plus recalled over 'sabotage'

15-minute daily exercise is 'bare minimum for health'

'Life is pared down to what really matters?

NCPC calls for new deal for the dying

'I'm having a very good death'

Jo Brand moves more for Macmillan

Care farms help people recover their better nature

Workers facing a bleak old age says pension review

Palliative care outsourced to voluntary sector at two trusts

The poster boy for motor neurone disease

Alistair Banks: the incurable optimist

Why You Should Have a Memorial Service

The most moving story I've ever heard - Dad's life, in his own words

My husband's life ended so well, thanks to the NHS

Daybreak's John Stapleton recommends new Parkinson's carer guide

My death is my affair ? just don't let my daughter design my headstone

Should I tell my father that Mom is dying?

Nearly half of carers not claiming Carer's Allowance, despite skipping meals and incurring debt

The 71-year-old millionaire who died at Dignitas with Terry Pratchett at his side in controversial BBC documentary

Diana Athill interview: Why the private sector shouldn't touch social care

Southern Cross care fiasco sheds light on secretive world of private equity

Unpaid carers save ?119 billion a year

Campaigners warn over incapacity benefit changes

Undercover reporter 'haunted' by abuse of patients

800,000 elderly people in care crisis

Cancer patients denied last wish to die at home because of shortage of nurses

Dementia patient's hospital treatment 'degrading'

Regulator raises elderly care concerns

The death whisperers

Omega Colleague Reports from Mental Health Conference

Social care cuts: 'The people concerned are invisible'

Information Needed to Make End of Life Decisions

Professor with terminal cancer uses illness to teach

Happiness is a well stocked biscuit barrel!

Loneliness is 'hidden killer' of elderly

Being there - volunteers stay with the dying

How do you tell someone with cancer that all hope has gone?

Let's talk about death, say charities

After Daughter?s Death, Helping Others Cope With Dying

Burstow announces ?4.4m boost for carers' support

Sleep hours 'linked to death'

Many carers 'have bad debt worries'

UK carers 'desperately worried about finances'