Integrated end of life care: the role of social services
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It is estimated that 75% of the population in industrialised countries will die from chronic diseases and most of them with multiple chronic conditions [2]. End of life care for multimorbid patients is particularly complex and in most health and care systems fragmented and uncoordinated. More importantly, highly medicalised and hospital-centric care often leads to overtreatment and over use of resources, but this overtreatment rarely avoids unnecessary suffering.
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