Dementia

Dementia and Alzheimer disease has replaced ischaemic heart diseases as the leading cause of death in England and Wales, accounting for 11.6% of all deaths registered in 2015. Over half of those with dementia have Alzheimer's disease and up to a third vascular dementia.

The number of elderly with dementia is increasing as people live longer. It is expected to increase in Kent from under 20,000 in 2012 to just under 25,000 in 2020.

See also our pages on carers and older people.

Our resources

Data and reports

Information on prevalence and hospital admissions for those over 65 is available in the 'ageing well' section of our Health and Social Care Maps.

Library services

The Public Health and Social Care Library can provide access to library and knowledge services, including books and journal articles relating to dementia. We can also produce bespoke literature searches.

Requests

If you can't find what you were looking for, we complete over 200 ad-hoc requests for analysis each year. Request further analysis or a literature search or contact us.

External resources

A number of organisations produce dementia statistics both at national and local level.

Public Health England provide detailed local data and intelligence across the whole pathway of dementia care; from prevalence and diagnosis through to end of life, including a dementia profiling tool.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides mortality statistics, which include mortality from dementia.
The National General Practice Profiles present a range of data, including prevalence.
The National Clinical Audit programme provides information on standards of healthcare being achieved for dementia.
NHS Digital publish monthly prevalence estimates and diagnosis rates based on Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) data, and have produced a compendium of statistics about dementia.
Alzheimer's Research UK also publish key dementia statistics. The Alzheimer's Society has also published Dementia UK, a detailed report on dementia prevalence and the social and economic impacts of dementia.