
Beyond the rainbow: is end-of-life care truly inclusive?
A Swiss national research project is examining how LGBTQ+ people experience advanced illness and the end of life has just marked its first year – a milestone that underscores both the urgency of its questions and the scale of the work still ahead. When we talk about palliative care and the end of life, the collective imagination still tends to construct a partial, simplified picture – one that rarely accounts for the plurality of experiences involved. Reality is far more complex. That recognition is the starting point for a Swiss national research project spanning the country’s linguistic regions and involving clinicians and researchers









