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.
Place of death, compared by settings where care was received in the last three months of life
Table 6.3
Place of death
%
Last three months – care received
N
N
2,525
37.7%
Home
Home
951
6.3%
Nursing home
158
42.5% 13.4%
Hospital
1,074
338
Hospice
2.8%
Nursing Home
1,671 Home
47
Nursing home
1,197
71.6% 20.2%
337
Hospital
5.2%
Hospice
87
2,639
420 386
Hospital
Home
15.9%
Nursing home
14.6% 57.3%
1,513
Hospital
315
Hospice
11.9%
37
Hospice
540 Home
6.9% 3.3%
Nursing home
18 22
Hospital
4.1%
463
Hospice
85.7%
97
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