NELS-National-Report-2023

Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023

Summary of findings: Care in a nursing home in the last two days of life

 In total, 1,251 participants said that their relative or friend died in a nursing home or residential care facility.  The highest-scoring question related to kindness and compassion from healthcare sta΍, with 91.9% of bereaved relatives (1,067 of 1,161) saying that their relative or friend was always treated with kindness and compassion by healthcare sta΍ during the last two days of their life.  The lowest-scoring question related to involvement in decisions, with 6.5% of people (26 of 397) saying that their relative or friend was not as involved as they wanted to be in decisions about their care and treatment during the last two days of their life.

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