Increase in Number of People Dying in the Place of their Choice

Delighted to see this  article title in the Guardian:  "Increase in Number of People Dying in the Place of their Choice."  



A report released, today, from Public Health England, shows that about 24,000 more people died at home or in care homes rather than hospital in England in 2012 than they did four years before, reflecting the wishes of more people in their last year of life.



As the Dartmouth Atlas has repeatedly demonstrated in the United States, there are large variations in the proportion of deaths in hospital. People are least likely to be in hospital at the end of their lives in Cambridge – 37.9% – and most likely to die in hospital in Waltham Forest, north-east London, where the figure is 69.1%.