Dementia

(asked on 17th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dementia patients there have been in each of the last five years by gender and age.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 21st July 2017

The following table presents the number of people who had a recorded dementia diagnosis by age and gender as at 20 April in the last three years. Before this a breakdown by age and gender is not possible.

Recorded dementia diagnoses, by age group and gender, England

30 April 2015

30 April 2016

30 April 2017

Age group (years)

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

0 to 29

26

16

29

20

29

20

30 to 39

64

48

54

51

50

57

40 to 49

406

357

391

339

411

344

50 to 59

2,577

2,449

2,618

2,537

2,900

2,734

60+

143,775

264,969

145,361

262,382

157,549

278,102

Source: NHS Digital

The following table presents the total number of people with a dementia diagnosis in earlier years.

Recorded dementia diagnoses, England, 2011/12 to 2014/15

Achievement date

Count

31 March2012

293,738

31 March 2013

318,669

31 March 2014

344,408

Source: NHS Digital

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