Table 2 Individual and Regional characteristics of deaths with a mention of dementia occurring in care home (n = 215,183), hospital (n = 153,916), home (n = 18,670) and inpatient hospice unit (n = 1,130) in people over 60 in England 2001-2010
Variable | Value | Place of death | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Care home (N = 215,183) | Hospital (N = 153,916) | Home (N = 18,670) | Inpatient hospice unit (N = 1,130) | All (N = 388,899) | |||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Gender | Men | 59,571 | 27.7 | 62,292 | 40.5 | 6,299 | 33.7 | 522 | 46.2 | 128,684 | 33.1 |
Women | 155,612 | 72.3 | 91,624 | 59.5 | 12,371 | 66.3 | 608 | 53.8 | 260,215 | 66.9 | |
Age mean (SD) | 86.1 (6.9) | 84.9 (6.9) | 84.3 (7.3) | 81.8 (7.4) | 85.5 (7.0) | ||||||
Age group | 60-79 | 34,935 | 16.2 | 31,274 | 20.3 | 4,378 | 23.5 | 400 | 35.4 | 70,987 | 18.3 |
80-84 | 46,180 | 21.5 | 37,210 | 24.2 | 4,538 | 24.3 | 303 | 26.8 | 88,231 | 22.7 | |
85-89 | 62,669 | 29.1 | 45,635 | 29.7 | 5,197 | 27.8 | 267 | 23.6 | 113,768 | 29.3 | |
90-94 | 49,353 | 22.9 | 29,749 | 19.3 | 3,311 | 17.7 | 130 | 11.5 | 82,543 | 21.2 | |
>95 | 22,046 | 10.3 | 10,048 | 6.5 | 1,246 | 6.7 | 30 | 2.7 | 33,370 | 8.6 | |
Marital status | Married | 47,570 | 22.1 | 49,925 | 32.4 | 8,629 | 46.2 | 552 | 48.9 | 106,676 | 27.4 |
Single | 17,441 | 8.1 | 11,251 | 7.3 | 730 | 3.9 | 57 | 5.0 | 29,479 | 7.6 | |
Widowed | 139,925 | 65.0 | 84,988 | 55.2 | 8,665 | 46.4 | 446 | 39.5 | 234,024 | 60.2 | |
Divorced | 9,209 | 4.3 | 6,954 | 4.5 | 592 | 3.2 | 70 | 6.2 | 16,825 | 4.3 | |
Unknown | 1,038 | 0.5 | 798 | 0.5 | 54 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.4 | 1,895 | 0.5 | |
Underlying cause of death | Dementia | 115,120 | 53.5 | 57,086 | 37.1 | 8,489 | 45.5 | 210 | 18.6 | 180,905 | 46.5 |
Respiratory disease | 3,679 | 1.7 | 4,431 | 2.9 | 546 | 2.9 | 6 | 0.5 | 8,662 | 2.2 | |
Cancer | 10,396 | 4.8 | 7,038 | 4.6 | 1,865 | 10.0 | 651 | 57.6 | 19,950 | 5.1 | |
Cardiovascular disease | 20,774 | 9.7 | 20,539 | 13.3 | 2,569 | 13.8 | 71 | 6.3 | 43,953 | 11.3 | |
Cerebrovascular disease | 38,902 | 18.1 | 26,791 | 17.4 | 3,092 | 16.6 | 103 | 9.1 | 68,888 | 17.7 | |
Chronic neurological | 4,137 | 1.9 | 2,555 | 1.7 | 448 | 2.4 | 28 | 2.5 | 7,168 | 1.8 | |
Other | 22,175 | 10.3 | 35,476 | 23.1 | 1,661 | 8.9 | 61 | 5.4 | 59,373 | 15.3 | |
Year of death | 2001-2005 | 95,395 | 44.3 | 63,900 | 41.5 | 6,933 | 37.1 | 325 | 28.8 | 166,553 | 42.8 |
2006-2010 | 119,788 | 55.7 | 90,016 | 58.5 | 11,737 | 62.9 | 805 | 71.2 | 222,346 | 57.2 | |
Deprivation quintile | 1st (most deprived) | 35,472 | 16.5 | 33,887 | 22.0 | 3,213 | 17.2 | 217 | 19.2 | 72,789 | 18.7 |
2nd | 42,343 | 19.7 | 32,984 | 21.4 | 3,435 | 18.4 | 220 | 19.5 | 78,982 | 20.3 | |
3rd | 48,555 | 22.6 | 32,413 | 21.1 | 3,945 | 21.1 | 229 | 20.3 | 85,142 | 21.9 | |
4th | 47,545 | 22.1 | 29,684 | 19.3 | 4,168 | 22.3 | 264 | 23.4 | 81,661 | 21.0 | |
5th (least deprived) | 41,268 | 19.2 | 24,948 | 16.2 | 3,909 | 20.9 | 200 | 17.7 | 70,325 | 18.1 | |
Urbanisation | Urban | 165,574 | 77.0 | 128,469 | 83.5 | 14,167 | 75.9 | 969 | 85.8 | 309,179 | 79.5 |
Semi-rural | 23,757 | 11.0 | 14,079 | 9.2 | 2,051 | 11.0 | 80 | 7.1 | 39,967 | 10.3 | |
Rural | 25,852 | 12.0 | 11,368 | 7.4 | 2,452 | 13.1 | 81 | 7.2 | 39,753 | 10.2 | |
Care home beds/1,000 | 0 | 36,922 | 17.2 | 62,475 | 40.6 | 11,103 | 59.5 | 619 | 54.8 | 111,119 | 28.6 |
1-25 | 39,432 | 18.3 | 31,676 | 20.6 | 4,003 | 21.4 | 248 | 22.0 | 75,359 | 19.4 | |
26-50 | 65,889 | 30.6 | 32,103 | 20.9 | 2,271 | 12.2 | 150 | 13.3 | 100,413 | 25.8 | |
>50 | 72,940 | 33.9 | 27,662 | 18.0 | 1,293 | 6.9 | 113 | 10.0 | 102,008 | 26.2 | |