Table 1 Patients’ characteristics (N = 16,084)
Patients | Age at death, years, mean (SD) | 85.1 (7.5) |
65–74 years, n (%) | 1539 (9.6%) | |
75–84 years | 5857 (36.4%) | |
85–94 years | 6892 (42.9%) | |
≥ 95 years | 1796 (11.2%) | |
Male | 7804 (48.5%) | |
Female | 8280 (51.5%) | |
Medical care services | Hospitalization, total | 14,687 (91.3%) |
Subacute/chronic care hospital | 11,378 (70.7%) | |
Acute care hospital | 8995 (55.9%) | |
Home medical care by a physician | 3518 (21.9%) | |
Ventilation | 2852 (17.7%) | |
Death at home/long-term care facility | 2113 (13.1%) | |
Tube feeding | 814 (5.1%) | |
Hospice | 639 (4.0%) | |
Dialysis | 557 (3.5%) | |
Long-term care services | Home visiting care | 5239 (32.6%) |
Day care | 4894 (30.4%) | |
Institutional care, total | 3779 (23.5%) | |
Special nursing home for the elderly | 1669 (10.4%) | |
Health services facility for the aged | 1517 (9.4%) | |
Community-based specific facility | 394 (2.4%) | |
Sanatorium-type medical care facilities | 385 (%) | |
Group home for dementia | 289 (1.8%) | |
Diseases | Chronic respiratory failure | 12,551 (78.0%) |
Hypertension | 12,534 (77.9%) | |
Musculoskeletal disorder | 11,778 (73.2%) | |
Cerebrovascular disease | 11,659 (72.5%) | |
Chronic heart failure | 10,640 (66.2%) | |
Spinal disease | 8396 (52.2%) | |
Psychiatric disorder | 8041 (50.0%) | |
Malignancy | 7080 (44.0%) | |
Metabolic bone disease | 6453 (40.1%) | |
Chronic liver disease | 6386 (39.7%) | |
Dementia | 6110 (38.0%) | |
Chronic kidney disease | 5129 (31.9%) | |
Other fracture | 3546 (22.0%) | |
Benign prostatic hyperplasia | 2231 (13.9%) | |
Ischemic heart disease | 2115 (13.1%) | |
Fracture of femur | 1964 (12.2%) | |
Uncomplicated diabetes mellitus | 1926 (12.0%) | |
Complicated diabetes mellitus | 1686 (10.5%) | |
Neurodegenerative disease | 1515 (9.4%) | |
Fracture of extremities (excluding femur) | 531 (3.3%) | |
Hematological malignancy | 3546 (22.0%) | |
Number of diseases Average (minimum–maximum) | 7.8 (0–18) |