Place where a person with a terminal illness died 2013

This statistic displays the places where a person with a terminal illness died in England in 2013, by gender. In this year, 47 percent of men and 42 percent of women had someone close to them die from a terminal illness in a hospital in the last five years.

Distribution of the place where a person with a terminal illness died in England in 2013, by gender

Characteristic	Men	Women
In hospital	47%	42%
At home: person who died	28%	28%
At home: participant's**	3%	4%
In a hospice	14%	16%
Nursing care home	5%	7%
Residential care home	2%	1%
Other	2%	1%

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Release date

December 2014

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

January to December 2013

Number of respondents

2,156*

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

Aged 16 and over who had someone close to them die in the last five years

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

* Weighted bases: n (men)= 987 n (women)= 1,169
** At home: particpants includes cases where the participant lived with the person who died, and cases where they did not but the death occurred at the participant's home.
This statistic using original data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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