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
Fig 2
Health care spending trajectories of decedents in the last five years of life.
Mean total costs in the Low-, Accelerating-, Moderate-Persistent, and High-Persistent-Expenditures groups were 13.4, 43.5, 56.9, and 131.3 thousand euro respectively.