Australia’s “death-denying” culture is hampering hospitals across the country, according to a new report on how and where people spend the last phase of life.
It found a quarter of all public hospital beds are occupied by patients who are predominantly elderly, in their final year of life, and often receiving high-intensity care without clear benefits.
While 70 per cent want to die at home, with emotional and medical support, less than 15 per cent achieve this.
This helps to explain why 11 per cent of the federal health budget is now being spent on 1 per cent of the population who die in that year.
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