Care at the End of Life: An Economic Perspective

Jeff Round is a health economist in the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. From 2010, when he first joined the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London, his primary research interests have been in the economics of end of life and palliative care. He has published on a range of topics relating to the economics of end of life care, including the costs of caring for people at the end of life, economic evaluations of complex interventions and the most appropriate methods for the measurement and valuation of outcomes. He is also interested in the role of informal caregivers at the end of life, which is the focus of PhD research. His work in this area is focused on the impact of care giving on the economic and labour market outcomes of caregivers as well as on their health and well being.