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Introduction
End‐of‐life care differs by serious illness diagnosis. Cancer and dementia are serious illnesses that have been associated with less intensive end‐of‐life health care use. It is not known how health care utilization varies in the presence of >1 serious illness.
Methods
We used the Rochester Epidemiology Project to identify persons living in a midwestern area who died on July 1,...