74% want to die at home, but will instead die in hospital

Three in four people in Ireland want to die at home, but despite their wishes, most will die in a hospital.

The Irish Hospice Foundation survey shows 74% of people want to die at home  - 67% had expressed the same wish in an IHF survey 10 years ago.

The latest survey shows that of those who lost someone close to them in the last two years, 38% died in a hospital, 26% at home, 12% in nursing/residential home, and 11% in a hospice.