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.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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31 March2012 | 293,738 |
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31 March 2013 | 318,669 |
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31 March 2014 | 344,408 |
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Source: NHS Digital |
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