Edited by
Sue Hall, Hristina Petkova, Agis D. Tsouros,
Massimo Costantini and Irene J. Higginson

2011

Societies in the WHO European Region are ageing. This produces a need not only to improve health by preventing disease and disability but also to improve the quality of life that remains, enabling people to live well and, when the time comes, to die well.