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Dying Well at Home: The Case for Integrated Working

Dying Well at Home: The Case for Integrated Working
Social Care Institute for Excellence Social Care Institute for Excellence, London. 2013


Project ID (Internal) 184
Project Status completed
Full Reference (text) Social Care Institute for Excellence (2013) Dying well at home: the case for integrated working. Social Care Institute for Excellence. [The report can be accessed here]
Full Reference (URL) https://www.scie.org.uk/publications/guides/guide48/costsofdyingathome.asp
Summary / Abstract

The NHS should have a better evidence-based understanding of the relative costs of specialist and generalist care at the end of life, analysed according to place of care delivery.
Time spent in hospital in the last year of life is the most expensive factor in end of life care. Policy makers and commissioners should concentrate on interventions to keep people out of hospital if they do not need to be there, and to discharge them as early as possible.
Economic analyses should reflect the ‘cost’ to family members of caring, and should consider how savings to the state can be harnessed to support carers to continue to care at home.

Publication Title Dying Well at Home: The Case for Integrated Working
Author(s) Social Care Institute for Excellence
Publication Details Social Care Institute for Excellence, London.
Publication Year / End of Project 2013
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