NELS-National-Report-2023

Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023

Figure 5.6 Participants’ overall experiences of care and support by illness

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

18.7%

22.4%

58.9%

Cancer

28.9%

29.8%

41.3%

Covid-19

19.7%

24.4%

55.9%

Dementia

21.3%

24.9%

53.8%

Heart condition

Inȵuenza or pneumonia

22.1%

26.0%

51.9%

Lung condition

27.3%

26.3%

46.4%

Neurological condition

18.2%

22.9%

59.0%

End stage renal disease

21.6%

23.5%

54.9%

Something else

22.0%

26.3%

51.7%

29.8%

14.9%

55.3%

Don't know

Fair to poor (0 to 6)

Good (7 to 8)

Very good (9 to 10)

Figure 5.7 shows participants’ overall experiences of care and support by place of death. The most positive ratings of overall experience of care and support for participants were from bereaved relatives or friends of people who died in a hospice, with 72.4% of people (323 of 446) rating the overall care and support received in a hospice as ‘very good’.

Figure 5.7 Participants’ overall experiences of care and support by place of death

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

In their own home or in the home of a family member of friend

19.0%

21.9%

59.1%

26.5%

26.3%

47.2%

In a hospital

9.2%

18.4%

72.4%

In a hospice

In a nursing home/residential care facility

15.8%

24.0%

60.2%

Fair to poor (0 to 6)

Good (7 to 8)

Very good (9 to 10)

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