Year: 2021
Type: editorial
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with the highest death rate in the UK for over 10 years. There has been a marked shift of place of death into the community across the UK between March 2020 and 2021. Deaths at home increased by 67% during the first wave of the pandemic. There was a sustained increase of 33% above expected between the first two waves, and 43% above expected in the second wave.1 Nationally reported data identifies large changes in where people are dying, but little is understood about the circumstances of these deaths, the quality of end-of-life care in the community during the pandemic, or the services received.
Authors: Sarah Mitchell, Stephen Barclay, Catherine Evans, Katherine Sleeman
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: G2042415338, Empowering Better End of life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care Programme), Understanding the factors that influence why people with dementia make transitions from the community to acute hospital care settings in the last months of life: a retrospective cohort study (Project U-Care), The RE-EQUIPP Care Partnership: REducing inEQUalities through Integration of Primary and Palliative Care, Managing clinical uncertainty for older people in community hospitals to improve communication and palliative care; development, implementation and evaluation of the SPACEtoolkit – Symptom and Psychosocial Assessment and Communication Evaluation
OpenAlex ID: W4205832526