ABSTRACT
This chapter explores seeing ageing as a journey through life which we all follow, understanding that the end of life is part of that journey, even a culmination of it. The chapter identifies practice strategies for social work with older people in later life as they move towards the end of life. It describes how the idea of citizenship social work encapsulates those strategies. The chapter addresses a failing in social care policy for older people. Social care policy often sees them as part of the administrative category ‘adults’. Most people are ambivalent about ageing and they may see death as a final end to life. If life is a journey and later life and dying a valued part of it, we must see these experiences as integral to all human experience, and therefore to the life journey of all people who are citizens in our society.
