Elderly people dying in emergency departments

By Aisha Dow
Updated October 19 2017 - 9:43am, first published October 7 2017 - 10:22pm

Elderly people are being taken to emergency departments in their final hours of life and dying "under fluorescent lighting in a hospital cubicle" because many aged-care homes are not equipped to provide palliative care.

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