Where do people die?

The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention looked at that question and compared data between 1989 and 2007 to answer it in a press release today.

Of 700,000 people 85 and older who died in 2007:

• 40 percent died in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
• 29 percent died as hospital inpatients
• 19 percent died at home.

Compared with 1989, the percent of people who died at home increased by 7 percent and the percent of people who died in a hospital decreased by 11 percent.

Definitely a trend in the works here.

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