Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Study Reveals Place and Cause of Death in Centenarians

A new study has found that Centenarians are more likely to die of pneumonia and frailty or and less likely to die of the chronic conditions such as cancer or ischemic heart disease. Centenarians were most likely to die in a care home (61%) or hospital (27%) and less likely to die at home (10%) or in hospice care (0.2%). Higher care bed capacity was associated with fewer deaths of centenarians in hospital. The authors linked Office for National Statistics death ...




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