title: Joint care: chasing the shadow from our most sun-filled days.
abstract: With 118,000 people dying of cancers of different kinds in England yearly both the patients and their families need support through this rite de passage period. Sadly, the majority are not receiving the care they need. Author reports on the UK's first district general hospital-based support team for the care of the dying.
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*