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Patients in their last year of life with co-existing illnesses struggle to cope with a bewildering array of services and treatments, which are often poorly coordinated and lack any continuity of care, indicates an analysis of patient and carer feedback, published online in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
Patients and carers frequently found accessing the support they needed "impersonal" and "challenging," the comments showed.
It's important to get this right, say the researchers, because 'multimorbidity,' in which patients are coping with several illnesses at the same time, is increasingly common in the last year of life, and associated with frequent hospital admissions.