1 Why do older people get less palliative care than younger people? Anna Lloyd, Marilyn Kendall, Emma Carduff, Debbie Cavers, Barbara Kimbell and Scott A Murray Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh www.cphs.mvm.ed.ac.uk/groups/ppcrg/ Correspondance to anna.lloyd@ed.ac.uk November 2015