End of life care in the United Kingdom and Japan - intersections in culture, practice and policy (The Mitori Project)

在这个项目中，我们将汇聚一个由日本和英国学者组成的创新团队，共同致力于我们这个时代最紧迫的问题之一。Mitori项目将使用社会科学、人文科学和伦理学的观点来解决一系列日益重要的生命终结问题。我们将研究英国和日本目前是如何组织对临终关怀的。我们将探讨相关的文化、人口、专业和政策因素是如何塑造这一局面的。我们的重点将是两个后工业化社会--人口老龄化，对医疗和社会制度的巨大需求，以及对死亡、死亡和丧亲的社会预期不断变化--如何应对它们面临的挑战。我们还将考虑两国存在的关于生命终结的更广泛的论述，考察文化反应，关于协助死亡的辩论，以及当危及生命的疾病轨迹变得延长、不稳定和不可预测时发生的生死表现。Mitori项目将对这两个国家的临终问题进行一次简短的观察。它将增进我们的理解，并采用创新的方法来形成研究、知识交流的新议程--并最终实现社会变革和社会进步。

In this project we will bring together an innovative team of academics from Japan and the UK to work together on one of the most pressing matters of our time. The Mitori Project will use the perspectives of social science, the humanities, and ethics to address a range of end of life issues that are of growing importance. We will examine how care of people at the end of life is currently organised in the UK and Japan. We will explore how this has been shaped by relevant cultural, demographic, professional and policy factors. Our focus will be on how two post-industrial societies - with ageing populations, heavy demand on health and social systems and changing social expectations about dying, death and bereavement - are responding to the challenges they face. We will also consider the wider discourses about the end of life that exist in the two countries, examining cultural responses, debates about assisted dying, and the representations of life and death that occur when life-threatening illness trajectories become extended, erratic and unpredictable. The Mitori Project will take a 'watching' brief on end of life issues in the two countries. It will enhance our understanding and adopt innovative approaches to shape a new agenda for research, knowledge exchange - and ultimately for social change and societal improvement.