In the first 10 weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of people dying in care homes increased by 222% in England and Wales. The authors of the paper estimate that just over one in five of all Covid-19 deaths occurred among people who might have been in their last year of life in the absence of a pandemic. The paper discusses the need of health and care systems to be available to provide palliative care to support people with severe Covid-19 particularly in the care home setting.
Bone, A. E., et al. 2020. Changing patterns of mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic: population-based modelling to understand palliative care implications. Palliative Medicine, 34 (9) p 1193-1201.