Rethinking Palliative Care Through Three Institutional Ethnographic Stories of People Living With Homelessness and Life-Limiting Illness

Inquiry. 2025 Jan-Dec;62:469580251390760. doi: 10.1177/00469580251390760. Epub 2025 Nov 1.ABSTRACTFifteen to thirty percent of Canadians have access to palliative care, with even fewer access opportunities for people with experiences of homelessness. Existing research identifies barriers to access but rarely shows how health and social institutions actively organize exclusion. Part of a larger study, this paper examines how health and social systems shape the need for community-based palliative and end-of-life care, using 3 stories from clients of the Community Allied Mobile Palliative Partnership (CAMPP). Using institutional ethnography, data were collected between Fall 2019 and Summer 2020. Sources included approximately 100 h of…
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