Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023
A total of 1,164 participants (46.1%) said that someone from a hospice, community palliative care team or other specialist palliative care service visited their relative or friend in the last three months of their life. While 42.4% (1,071) said that this was not needed, 257 bereaved relatives (10.2%) said that this was not oered. 18 Overall experiences of care at home In total, 78.1% of participants (1,822 of 2,332) rated the overall care that their relative or friend received from healthcare sta at home in the last three months of their life as ‘good’ or ‘very good’ (Figure 3.4). In contrast, 21.9% (510) of people rated the care received at home as ‘fair to poor’.
Figure 3.4 Overall experiences of care received at home
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Figure 3.5 presents overall experiences of care received at home, broken down by the age and gender of the person who died. 19 In total, 76.7% of participants said that males had a ‘good’ or ‘very good’ overall experience, compared with 78.4% of females. In terms of age groups, the relatives or friends of those who died aged 90 years or older were most likely to rate the overall experience of care as ‘good’ or ‘very good’ overall.
18 A further 1.3% (33) said that they did not know. 19 One respondent selected ‘prefer not to say’ when asked about the gender of the person who died and rated their experience as fair to poor.
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