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End of Life Online Curriculum - Modules
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Overview of Palliative Care
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Where Do Patients Die?
- More than 90% of adults in the United States say that they would prefer
to die at home.
- In reality, overall, about one in two Americans who died from chronic
illnesses in 2001 died in hospital setting.
- The number of Americans who died at home increased between 1989 and 1997,
but has stayed relatively constant since then.
- There is significant state by state variation in the site of death.
Sites of Care at the End of Life
Site of Death: 1989 - 2001 |
Site |
1989 |
1997 |
2001 |
Hospital |
62.3% |
51.7% |
49.5% |
Nursing Home Unit |
19.2% |
23.0% |
23.2% |
Home |
15.9% |
22.9% |
23.4% |
| Source: Table created from data available at http://www.chcr.brown.edu/dying/brownatlas.htm.
All results have been adjusted for age and gender against the 1990 U.S.
census population. |
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© End
of Life Curriculum Project, a joint project of the US Veterans Administration
and SUMMIT,
Stanford University Medical School.
Funded by a grant to the Veterans
Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network by
the National Library of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, MD, Director.
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