Tag Archives: England and Wales

Recorded Deaths With a Dementia Diagnosis More Than Doubled Since 2001? (PHE)

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England (PHE) has released detailed statistics about the deaths of people recorded with dementia between 2012 and 2014. The proportion of people dying with a recorded dementia diagnosis increased from 6.6% of all deaths in 2001 to … Continue reading →

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Excess Winter Mortality in England and Wales: 2014/15 and 2017/8 (BBC News / ONS)

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 43,900 excess deaths in England and Wales during the Winter of 2014/15. This was not a particularly cold Winter. Most of the excess Winter mortality involved … Continue reading →

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Updated Official Statistics on Ageing in the UK (BBC News / ONS)

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Official statistics show that there were 840 people aged 90 and over per 100,000 in England and Wales in 2013; which is was slightly higher than in Scotland (707 per 100,000) and Northern Ireland (620 per 100,000). There has … Continue reading →

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Impact of Cause of Death Coding Changes on Dementia Mortality Statistics (ONS)

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Recent changes to the coding of chest infections in the collection and processing of mortality statistics has contributed to a (virtual, non-veridical) reduction of 2.5% in deaths given the underlying cause of respiratory disease and an increase of 7.0% … Continue reading →

Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), National, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Wales | Tagged Aspiration Pneumonia, Cause of Death Coding Changes, Chest Infections, Dementia Coding, Dementia Statistics, Diseases of the Nervous System (ICD-10 Codes G00–G99), England and Wales, Epidemiology and Statistics, EUROSTAT: Statistical Office of the European Union, Government Statistical Service, Health Statistics, Impact of IRIS on Mortality Statistics, IRIS (Eurostat), IRIS Institute: German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information in Cologne, IRIS Software, Lies Damned Lies and Statistics, Mental and Behavioural Disorders (ICD-10 Codes F00–F99), Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS), Mortality Statistics, National Statistics, Office of National Statistics (ONS), Office of National Statistics Mortality Data, Official Statistics, Statistical Anomalies, Statistical Epiphenomena, Statistics Policy, United States National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases: Tenth Revision (ICD-10) | Leave a comment

The Environment and Health Atlas: England and Wales (BBC News / MRC / PHE)

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Researchers at Imperial College London have produced an online map of population-wide health information for England and Wales, which allows users to enter their postcodes to discover their local community’s risk of developing 14 conditions, including heart disease and … Continue reading →

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Official Statistics on Ageing in the UK (BBC News / ONS)

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The number of people aged over 100 in the UK increased by 73% during the decade to 2012, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). There were 13,350 centenarians living in Britain in 2012, compared with 7,740 people … Continue reading →

Posted in Age UK, BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, International, National, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Statistics, UK, UK NSC, Universal Interest | Tagged Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Australian Bureau of Statistics, BBC Health News, Centenarians, Centenarians in the UK, Czech Statistical Office, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Demography of Centenarians in England and Wales, Eastern European Countries, England and Wales, Estimates of the Very Old, European Countries, Eurostat, Female Life Expectancy, Female to Male Sex Ratios in Ageing, International Comparisons, Japan, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy of Older People, Male Life Expectancy, Mid Year Estimates (MYE), National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies-France, National Institute of Statistics Italy, National Records of Scotland (NRS), National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, National Statistics Institute of Spain, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Office for National Statistics (ONS), Official Statistics, Oldest Old, Oldest Old in the United Kingdom, Oldest Old: the 85+ Age Group, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Population Estimates, Social Demographics, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Statistics Bureau of Japan, Statistics Denmark, Statistics Finland, Statistics Norway, Statistics Sweden, US Census Bureau, Very Old People | Leave a comment

Excess Winter Mortality in England and Wales: 2012/13 (ONS / NHS Choices)

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate an estimated 31,100 excess winter deaths occurred in England and Wales in 2012/13; representing a 29% increase compared with the previous winter. The Department of Health has linked the excess … Continue reading →

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Official Statistics on Ageing in the UK (BBC News / ONS)

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The number of centenarians in England and Wales has increased five-fold over the past 30 years. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures indicate there were 12,320 people aged over 100 in England and Wales in 2012; while there … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, BBC Health News, Centenarians, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, England and Wales, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Oxford Institute of Ageing, Social Demographics | Leave a comment

Increasing Active Travel in Urban England and Wales: Potential Savings for the National Health Service (Lancet)

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This statistical study looks into the potential savings which increasing levels of walking and cycling in urban areas (i.e. reduced use of private cars and presumably motorised public transport) could bring about purely as a result of positive health … Continue reading →

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Impact of Cause of Death Coding Changes on Dementia Mortality Statistics (ONS)

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