Health care expenditure in the last five years of life is driven by morbidity, not age: A national study of spending trajectories in Danish decedents over age 65.
Anne Vinkel HansenLaust Hvas MortensenStella TrompetRudi WestendorpPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Spending at the end of life is largely determined by chronic disease, and age and cause of death only determine the distribution of expenses into care and cure.