Nuffield Trust: "Understanding patterns of health and social care at the end of life"

The Nuffield Trust has just published a new Report: "Understanding Patterns of Health and Social Care at the End of Life."  



The Report draws on information from seven different local authority areas across England, comprising a total population of more than three million people. Using this data, the authors were able to describe the uptake and costs of key health and social care services for people in the last 12 months of life.



The researchers found that the use of social care at the end of life varied between conditions (for example people with dementia, falls and stroke used considerably more than those with cancer) and between local authorities, even when adjusted for age and sex. Individuals with the highest social care costs tended to have low average hospital costs.