title: Urbanization and place of death for the elderly: a 10-year population-based study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the association between the place of death and the level of urbanization within the communities where the elderly were residing at the time of their death.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study set in Taiwan, involving a total of 697,814 eligible deaths occurred between 1995 and 2004, among elderly people (aged 65 years or above).
  
  
  RESULTS
  After adjusting for other factors, the multilevel logistic regression analyses showed that home death was associated with lower levels of urbanization; as compared with participants living in the highest urbanization level (level 1), the respective adjusted odds of dying at home were 1.600, 2.769, 3.774, 4.481, 4.003 and 4.717 times for those living in the areas from the second highest to the lowest urbanization levels (levels 2-7).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After adjusting for other socio-demographic, clinical and healthcare factors, the place of death has a significant association with the level of urbanization among the elderly.
authors: School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. henry11111@tmu.edu.tw
authors: Herng-Ching
authors: HC
authors: Lin
authors: Yen-Ju
authors: YJ
authors: Lin
authors: Tsai-Ching
authors: TC
authors: Liu
authors: Chin-Shyan
authors: CS
authors: Chen
authors: Chia-Chin
authors: CC
authors: Lin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001293:Attitude to Death; D015981:Epidemiologic Factors; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D019452:Terminally Ill; D014507:Urbanization