© Nuffield Trust Social care and hospital use at the end of life Authors: Martin Bardsley and Theo Georghiou December 2010
© Nuffield Trust Mapping social care use at the end of life Background Data gathered for predictive modelling of social care admissions Analysis based on 3 PCT/LA areas Individual level data over 3+ years PCT: GP register, Mortality, Hospital records (IP, OP, A&E) LA: Social care services received Looked at hospital and social care information on a cohort of 16,479 people who died within a one year period.
© Nuffield Trust Linking information flows
© Nuffield Trust One person’s story: Based on anonymised data sets linking health and social care activity
© Nuffield Trust What proportion of people who died accessed any social care service?
© Nuffield Trust Percentage of people receiving local authority-funded social care in months before death, by site
© Nuffield Trust Changes in specific care services, year before death
© Nuffield Trust Change in low intensity SC services, year before death
© Nuffield Trust Differences in social care use by health condition
© Nuffield Trust Approximate cost of services, year before death
© Nuffield Trust Approximate cost per user, year before death
© Nuffield Trust Average cost per person in the last 12 months of life, by diagnostic group
© Nuffield Trust Average inpatient and social care cost per month (£m) in 12 months before death
© Nuffield Trust Average cost per person (£000s) by age group in last 12 months
© Nuffield Trust Inpatient vs social care costs – inverse relationship
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