Official Statistics

Dementia profile updates

Data relating to people with dementia, such as prevalence and diagnostics, risk factors, use of hospital services and mortality.

From:
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Published
2 June 2021
Last updated
8 May 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Dementia profile

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/dementia

Details

May 2024 update

A dementia indicators factsheet is published which includes new indicators for the NHS well pathway for dementia.

Each indicator will include: an introduction; latest findings; relevance of dataset; methodologies and interactive charts.

Data includes rates or proportions and confidence intervals for England, 7 NHS regions and integrated care board areas.

The data themes include:

  • dementia new diagnoses and diagnosed dementia incidence rates

  • people with dementia who are also included in the primary care palliative and end of life care register

  • people with dementia who also have cardiovascular comorbidities recorded in primary care records

  • people with mild cognitive impairment, not yet with a diagnosis of dementia

  • people with dementia with a diagnosis prior to 65 years of age (young onset dementia)

About the dementia profile

The dementia profile is designed to improve the availability and accessibility of information on dementia. The data is presented in an interactive tool that allows users to view and analyse it in a user-friendly format.

The profile is structured around the NHS England well pathway for dementia with indicators arranged into 5 data domains:

  • pathway on a page

  • preventing well

  • diagnosing well and prevalence

  • living well and supporting well

  • dying well

Indicators in the dementia profile are shown for integrated care boards (ICBs) and sub locations (sub ICBs) where used, and for local authority geographies. This data gives local commissioners and providers the information needed to benchmark current practice against other areas in England and the England level.

If you have any comments, questions or feedback, contact us at ndi@dhsc.gov.uk.

Published 2 June 2021
Last updated 8 May 2024 + show all updates

  1. New indicators factsheet added to include new themes along the dementia pathway. Data published includes rates and proportions and confidence intervals for England, 7 NHS regions and integrated care board areas.

  2. Updated the interactive factsheets to add February 2024 data, which shows the disparities across England in relation to the diagnosis of people with dementia and the care they receive.

  3. December 2023 data added for the 4 indicators in the national and sub national factsheets. 4 new integrated care boards (ICBs) comparator charts added in the national factsheet

  4. Updated to include information on new redesigned interactive factsheets illustrating the disparities that exist across England in relation to the diagnosis of people with dementia and the care they receive.

  5. Removed links to historical commentaries. Updated links to dementia profile.

  6. Updated to include 2023 annual da​ta for the estimated dementia diagnosis rate (EDDR) indicator in the diagnosing well domain at geographies for integrated care boards and sub-integrated care boards.

  7. Notification of the pausing of regular updates and product review

  8. Updated with latest data.

  9. Updated with latest data.

  10. Updated with latest data for April 2022.

  11. Updated with latest data for March 2022.

  12. Updated with latest data for February 2021.

  13. Updated with latest data for January 2021.

  14. Updated with latest data for December 2021.

  15. Updated with latest data for November 2021.

  16. Updated with latest data - October 2021.

  17. Updated with latest data.

  18. Added summary of August profile updates.

  19. Added summary of July profile updates.

  20. Added dementia profile update details.

  21. Updated with latest data.

  22. First published.

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