The Covid pandemic brought into focus management of the elderly in nursing homes; those with dementia or with chronic morbidity likely to have a lower treatment priority. What is missing from this difficult discussion is the view of those elderly patients who have no wish to prolong their lives. As a retired hospital doctor, I regularly encountered those prolonged, end-of-life situations, painful to both patient and relatives, when palliative care had nothing to offer.
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