[End-of-life care and hospital medicine. A field experience.].

A large number of elderly patients end their life in general wards, where they hardly find appropriate for their specific needs. Physicians and nurses, irrespective of their specialization, should be able to provide the dying patients with end-of-life care (EOL-care) to meet their right to die well. Purposely tailored clinical paths, inspired to the comfort care, should be constructed and disseminated.