Checking Out: Exploring the Impact of Poverty on End of Life and Bereavement Through Interviews with Bereaved Individuals With Lived Experience and Professionals Working in Low-Income Communities in the UK, 2020-2021

The Checking Out project is a small qualitative study exploring attitudes towards, and experiences of, death and dying in low-income communities in the UK. The aims of the project are to explore the notion of ‘a good death’ within low-income communities, to understand the impact of poverty on experiences of end of life and bereavement and to advance understanding of the ways in which fear, stigma and trust impact on communication, relations (between patients, carers, families, social networks, healthcare professionals and organisations) and access to end-of-life care. This dataset includes interviews with bereaved individuals (n=14) and professionals involved in supporting people experiencing poverty at end of life or in bereavement (n = 15) and represents one strand of the Checking Out study.