… year of life. The aim of this study was to project future costs of hospital in-patient care and
primary health care … , both with and without account for the high costs in the last year of life. …

… with the health care use of people in their last year of life. Increasing longevity will result
in higher costs because people live longer. The decline of costs in the last year of life with …

… in cost trajectories nor the intensity of care … care, hospital outpatient and inpatient care and
assess the intensity of services of people 60 years and over, received in the last year and last …

… Yet little is known about the total social costs (personal out-of-pocket costs plus external or
governmental costs [4]) and the household financial burdens of care in the last years of life. …

… cure (acute care) costs and care (long-term care) costs for all age … and extent of health care
costs in the last year of life can … care costs, and subsequently guide them in targeting cost-…

… Results: Care of people aged 65 years and over in their last year of life … inpatient costs,
while cancer (25.0% of deaths) accounted for $16 853. The highest average costs in the last year …

… year 2 ; about one-third of the expenditures in the last year of life is spent in the last month.
Previous investigations have found that most of these costs result from life-sustaining care (eg…

… This study examines Medicare utilization in the last year of life by over 10,000 … and cost
of Medicare-reimbursed services in the last year of life and in each of the quarters of that year. …

… beneficiaries’ costs for care in the last year of life. About one-quarter of Medicare outlays
are for the last year of life, unchanged from twenty years ago. Costs reflect care for multiple …

… administrative databases, we examined health care use and cost in the last year of life. …
and costs among all decedents in Ontario, we found that the cost of health care in the last year of …