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There is a global public debate going on about care for the elderly and the dying, and what is meant by good quality palliative care.

This book begins with the rise of the modern hospice movement, begun in 1967. Today there are 8,500 modern hospice projects in 123 countries. The hospice has become an iconic building for this new culture. This is not a book about hospitals as such, but about what lessons the hospice movement has for new ideas about buildings for healthcare across the world.

For architects and interior designers, estate and facility managers involved in hospice design, healthcare professionals, hospital administrators and Heathcare Trust Boards.

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• Acknowledgements(p. viii)
• Illustration credits(p. ix)
• 1 A house at the end of life(p. 1)
• 2 'Be Kind Quickly'(p. 14)
• 3 The brief is everything(p. 26)
• 4 Public faces and private places(p. 46)
• 5 Everything gathered in one small room(p. 63)
• 6 In a hospice garden(p. 78)
• 7 The evening land(p. 90)
• Notes(p. 101)
• Bibliography(p. 111)
• List of hospices and hospitals visited(p. 115)
• Thanks(p. 117)
• Index(p. 119)

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Ken Worpole is the author of many books and studies on architecture, landscape and urban design, and adviser on public policy to the UK government, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and the Heritage Lottery Fund. He is a Senior Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University. The Independent newspaper wrote that, For many years Ken Worpole has been one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape.'