Description
The Sociology of Ageing, and Death studies, have been traditionally siloed and understood as discrete corpuses of knowledge / fields. Discussion about the quality of end-of-life care for older people has recently been highlighted in the COVID-19 pandemic, and the assisted suicide bill in the United Kingdom. These moments of debate could provide impetus and fora to discuss the intersecting disciplines of ageing and death; to consider questions like what is a ‘good death’? What is ‘care’ at the end of life? Issues of consent, capacity and overarching ethical principles are fundamental to these discussions. However, the potential for learning and collaboration between the sociology of ageing, and death studies remains underutilised. For instance, when intersectionally exploring the hermeneutics of death and care, identity and inequality issues of gender / sexuality, ethnicity and disability, are still relatively under researched in both the Sociology of Ageing, and Death Studies. This paper discusses the insights these two traditionally separate fields of study can offer each other and the increasingly pertinent discussions of end-of-life care for older people.| Period | 13 Jun 2025 |
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| Event title | Centre of Death and Society: Death and transition |
| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | International |