Publisher's Synopsis
Both in health and social care there is considerable interest in the issues of user involvement. In the care of terminally ill people the hospice movement has a long history of actively seeking to involve service users and their carers. This report identifies the benefits and difficulties of involving service users in planning terminal care. It suggests how involvement might be facilitated and outlines the problems inherent in seeking user views in this situation. The report also considers how far the methods of user involvement, developed in the hospice movement, can be transferred to people with a diagnosis other than cancer.
