Professor Alex Broom

Professor of Sociology, Director Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney

Politics & Society

We need to rethink how we manage deathcare

Australia’s deathcare system is already showing cracks, but the pressures will only worsen, especially as the baby boomer generation takes us into ‘peak death’

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