Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023
When broken down further, it is possible to see the link between settings where care was received in the last three months and place of death, as shown in Table 6.3. It was notable that 85.7% of the 540 people who accessed hospice care in the last three months of their life subsequently died in a hospice. In addition, 71.6% of the 1,671 people who received nursing home care in the last three months of their life, subsequently died in a nursing home. While Table 6.3 does not fully demonstrate the complexity and variety of services and settings where care was received in the last months and days of life, it does demonstrate numerous routes taken by people when receiving end-of-life care.
Table 6.3
Place of death, compared by settings where care was received in the last three months of life
Last three months – care received
N
Place of death
N
%
Home
2,525
Home
951 158
37.7%
Nursing home
6.3%
Hospital Hospice
1,074
42.5% 13.4%
338
Nursing Home
1,671 Home
47
2.8%
Nursing home
1,197
71.6% 20.2%
Hospital Hospice
337
87
5.2%
Hospital
2,639
Home
420 386
15.9% 14.6% 57.3% 11.9%
Nursing home
Hospital Hospice
1,513
315
Hospice
540 Home
37 18 22
6.9% 3.3% 4.1%
Nursing home
Hospital Hospice
463
85.7%
97
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