Municipal Characteristics of In-Home Death Among Care-Dependent Older Japanese Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The provision of in-home and community end-of-life care has emerged as an important policy issue for aging populations around the world. Despite most patients expressing the wish to die at home (as opposed to in the hospital), substantial geographic variation persists in the prevalence of in-home death at the end of life.

Objective

To assess the association of municipal characteristics with variation in the place of death among care-dependent older people in Japan.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study using multilevel logistic regression, analyses were performed using national claims data under Japan's long-term care insurance system. The study population included long-term care insurance beneficiaries 65 years and older who died

SUBMITTER: Abe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8733841 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature