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Dementia deaths more than double in a decade
The proportion of people dying of dementia has more than doubled in a decade, official figures show, and by 2021 one in eight of all deaths could be due to the brain disease.
By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent
2:09PM GMT 06 Nov 2012
Every tenth woman in England and Wales now dies of dementia (10.3 per cent), according to mortality figures for 2011 from the Office for National Statistics, up from 4.3 per cent in 2001.
In men, the proportion of deaths from dementia has risen from 2.0 to 5.2 per cent over the course of the decade.
Should these rises be sustained it will mean that by 2021 about 12 per cent of all deaths will be attributed to dementia.
Experts said the figures were a “scary” reminder of the scale of the dementia timebomb facing Britain.
PEOPLE with dementia will soon be able to benefit from a state of the art facility.
Aldeburgh Community Hospital
Aldeburgh: New facility set to open at community hospital for people with dementia
By Craig Robinson Monday, October 29, 2012
10:00 AM
PEOPLE with dementia will soon be able to benefit from a state of the art facility.
A new multi sensory room will be opened at Aldeburgh Community Hospital tomorrow.
The facility can be used in a variety of ways but will initially help people who have dementia, especially those using the hospital’s day centre.
“They’re killing me.. get me out of here”: Scandal of death of a 90-year-old dementia patient due to NHS failings
I just wish we could have nursed him at home.
When dementia sufferer Robin Melville was admitted to hospital after several falls at home his family hoped he would be nursed back to health. But two weeks later the 90-year-old died after falling from his bed, which had been raised 4ft off the ground and left with the guard rail down
The grandfather suffered brain damage, a fractured skull and broken ribs in the fall before dying from pneumonia. Bosses at Portsmouth’s Hospitals’ NHS Trust dispute that Mr Melville had died because of the fall in 2009. But now, after a three-year legal fight, the hospital has apologised and paid compensation.
