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Levels remain particularly high among people dying at home, where deaths were 32% above average in the week to January 13, compared with 28% higher for care homes and 11% higher for hospitals.
Kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely death is a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. [1] First described in the 1980s, [ 1 ] kodokushi has become an increasing problem in Japan, attributed to economic troubles and Japan's increasingly elderly population .
Levels remain particularly high among people dying at home, where deaths were 37% above average in the week to December 30, compared with 20% higher for care homes and 15% higher for hospitals.
About three-quarters of deaths could be considered "predictable" and followed a period of chronic illness [82] [83] [84] – for example heart disease, cancer, stroke, or dementia. In all, 58% of deaths occurred in an NHS hospital, 18% at home, 17% in residential care homes (most commonly people over the age of 85), and about 4% in hospices. [82]
Health policy and health systems can have impacts on deaths and thereby may also be a factor of deaths, also including for example education policy (e.g. health illiteracy), climate policy (e.g. future water scarcity impacts) and transportation policy (e.g. motor vehicle accidents, pollution and physical activity), [citation needed] as well as ...
With COVID-19 devastating communities in Missouri, his two-person crews regularly arrive at homes in the Springfield area and remove bodies of people who decided to die at home rather than spend ...
In the United States, a pervasive "death-defying" culture leads to resistance against the process of dying. [5] Death and illness are often conceived as things to "fight against", [5] with conversations about death and dying considered morbid or taboo. Most people die in a hospital or nursing facility, with only around 30% dying at home. [6]
Home funerals are legal in all 50 states, and in recent years, more Americans are dying at home than in hospitals, according to a 2019 report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers ...