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Death in England and Wales

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1997

Ann Cartwright
Ann Cartwright
Affiliation:
The Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care
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Abstract

Dying is the one common and certain event in life but it is a difficult process to study. Official statistics give information about the point of death; studies covering random samples of deaths are inevitably retrospective and based on the accounts of those who knew the person who died; other studies are selective and generally focused on people dying from cancer, so they include a relatively small proportion of old people. Yet, in developed countries, deaths are concentrated among older people. In England and Wales in 1994 83.6% of all deaths were of people aged 65 or over; 59.0% were 75 or more.

Type
Review Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , August 1997 , pp. 265 - 272
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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