Welcome to the dementia profile. This profile has been developed to support the work of the Dementia Intelligence Network (DIN) in providing health intelligence with which to inform the provision of care of people in England who have dementia.
This tool provides indicators arranged into six data domains:
These profiles are at Clinical Commissioning Group and Local Authority geographies and give local commissioners and providers the information they need to benchmark current practice against other CCGs, local authorities and England. Data and metadata are available online and as a download document.
To access the dementia profile, please click on the adjacent start button. A fingertips webtool user guide is also available.
Links to other MHDNIN dementia resources can be found on the Dementia data and analysis: a guide for health professionals page
Public Health England produce many profiles which supplement each other. The following profiles are examples which may help enrich the understanding of the population associated with dementia.
The newly published Productive Healthy Aging Profile provides a range of data about older people, in particular those who may use Adult Social Care Services at local authority level.
National General Practice Profiles presents a range of practice-level indicators drawn from the latest available data. In addition to viewing individual practice profiles, you can view summary profiles for CCGs.
Wider Determinants of Health aims to provide indicators to describe a range of wider determinants of health and highlight relationships with other risk factors and health outcomes.
April 2019
Changes to the presentation of the Fingertips profile:
We have made changes to the benchmarking and presentation of some indicators in the dementia profile. These changes are being made to ensure consistency in how Fingertips profiles are displayed across PHE. Key changes are:
Indicator Update:
The following indicators have been updated for every CCG, STP and local authority. In addition, the data period is April 1st 2017 to March 31st 2018, unless stated otherwise.
Prevalence:
Preventing Well:
Diagnosing Well:
Living Well:
Supporting Well:
Dying Well:
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August 2018
The following indicator has been updated and is now available at local authority, CCG and STP for the 2018 period. In addition to this the England value for 2017 has been updated to reflect the NHS health boundaries to be consistent with the 2018 data:
Diagnosing well
March 2018
The following indicators have been updated for every CCG, STP and local authority for the 2016/17 period, unless stated otherwise.
Prevalence
Preventing Well
Diagnosing Well
Living Well
Supporting Well
CCG values for the period 2014/15 to 2015/16 have been calculated due to a change to methodology and boundaries.
Dying Well (all as at 2016)
November 2017
Preventing Well
The new PHOF excess weight indicator 'Percentage of adults (aged 18+) classified as overweight or obese' supersedes 'Excess weight in Adults'. The new indicator is not comparable to the historic one, as the source data has changed and the age classification has changed from 16+ to 18+. The indicator has also changed from a three year average to a one year estimate.
Living Well
'Social Isolation: % of adult carers who have as much social contact as they would like' has been updated. This indicator is presented for local authorities.
October 2017
Opportunity for feedback: We are very interested in any feedback on the downloadable outputs which are available from the download section of the tool. The survey has now closed.
Supporting Well:
The following three new indicators are available at local authority, CCG and STP:
September 2017
Preventing Well
The following new indicator is available for each local authority:
This indicator replaces 'Percentage of physically active and inactive adults - inactive adults'.
Diagnosing Well
Estimated dementia diagnosis rate (aged 65+) has been moved from Prevalence to this domain.
Prevalence
The following three new indicators are available at local authority, CCG and STP:
The following indicator has been updated for local authorities, CCGs and STPs:
July 2017
A PDF download displaying a range of charts is now available for each local authority and CCG from the 'Download' section of the profile.
The downloadable PDFs have been developed as the first part of a programme of work, which seeks to meet a user need for a non-web based version of the profile. An evaluation of this development will soon begin in order to inform future work. If you have any comments, or wish to be notified when the user survey is available, please contact mhdnin@phe.gov.uk.
Prevalence
The following two new indicators are available at local authority, CCG and STP:
The following indicators have been updated for local authorities:
People receiving an NHS Health Check per year
Smoking Prevalence in adults - current smokers (APS)
May 2017
Preventing Well
The following indicator has been updated for local authorities.
Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) - 40-64 yrs
March 2017
Dying Well
The following indicators have been updated for both CCG and local authorities.
Deaths in Usual Place of Residence: People with dementia aged 65+
Directly Age Standardised Rate of Mortality: People with dementia aged 65+
Place of death - care home: People with dementia aged 65+
Place of death - hospital: People with dementia aged 65+
Place of death - home: People with dementia aged 65+
February 2017
Supporting Well
The following indicators have been updated for both CCG and local authorities. Values for the period 2012/13 to 2015/16 have been calculated due to a change to methodology. The main change is data are presented at CCG of responsibility. For further information refer to the indicator's metadata.
Dementia: Ratio of inpatient service use to recorded diagnoses
Dementia: DSR of emergency admissions (65+)
Dementia: Short stay emergency admissions (65+)
Alzheimer's disease: DSR of inpatient admissions (65+)
Vascular dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (65+)
Unspecified dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (65+)
Please note the following indicators have been removed from the profile and will be reviewed.
Supporting Well
Dementia: DSR of emergency admissions (20+)
Dementia: Short stay emergency admissions (20+)
Alzheimer's disease: DSR of inpatient admissions (20+)
Vascular dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (20+)
Unspecified dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (20+)
Dying Well
Directly Age-Standardised Rate of Mortality: People with Dementia (20+)
January 2017
Prevalence
The following indicators have been updated for both CCG and local authorities:
Dementia: Recorded Prevalence (all ages) (2015/16)
Dementia: Recorded Prevalence (aged 65+) (March 2016 and Sept 2016)
Diagnosing Well
The following indicators have been updated for both CCG and local authorities:
Hypertension: Recorded Prevalence (all ages) (2015/16)
Stroke: Recorded Prevalence (all ages) (2015/16)
Diabetes: Recorded Prevalence (aged 17+) (2015/16)
CHD: Recorded Prevalence (all ages) (2015/16)
Obesity: Recorded Prevalence (aged 18+) (2015/16) CCG only
(replaces Obesity: Recorded Prevalence (aged 16+) (2015/16)
Smoking: Recorded Prevalence (aged 15+) (2015/16) CCG only
December 2016
Preventing Well
The following indicators have been updated:
Depression: Recorded prevalence (aged 18+) (2015/16)
Smoking Prevalence in adults - current smokers (APS) (2015)
(Please note this replaces Smoking Prevalence in adults - current smokers (IHS))
Diagnosing Well
The following indicator is new:
DEM005: Blood tests recorded (den.incl.exc.) (2015/16)
(Please note this replaces indicator DEM003 Blood tests recorded (den.incl.exc.))
Living Well
The following indicator has been updated:
DEM002: Dementia care has been reviewed last 12 months (den.incl.exc) (2015/16)
Preventing Well
Four indicators have been updated:
Hypertension: Recorded prevalence (all ages) (2014/15)
Stroke: Recorded prevalence (aged 17+) (2014/15)
Diabetes: Recorded prevalence (aged 17+) (2014/15)
CHD: Recorded prevalence (all ages) (2014/15)
A new indicator: People receiving an NHS Health Check per year, has replaced the old indicator: People receiving an NHS Health Check (cumulative).
Pathway on a Page
A ‘Pathway on a Page’ domain has been created; this includes a number of key summary indicators from other dementia domains.
Living well
One new indicator:
Carer-reported quality of life score for those reported to be caring for someone with dementia (2014/15)
Preventing well
Two indicators have been updated:
Percentage of physically active and inactive adults - inactive adults (2015)
People receiving an NHS Health Check (2013/14 Q1 - 2015/16 Q4)
A number of indicators have been updated as shown below.
Preventing well
Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (aged 40-64) (2014/15)
Depression: QOF Prevalence (18+) (2014/15)
Supporting well (In addition, the indicators in the supporting well domain have been revised with new methodologies for calculation – please see definitions tab for more detail.)
Dementia: Ratio of inpatient service use to recorded diagnoses (2014/15)
Dementia: DSR of emergency admissions (aged 65+) (2014/15)
Dementia: DSR of emergency admissions (aged 20+) (2014/15)
Dementia: Short stay emergency admissions (aged 65+) (2014/15)
Dementia: Short stay emergency admissions (aged 20+) (2014/15)
Alzheimer's disease: DSR of inpatient admissions (aged 65+) (2014/15)
Alzheimer's disease: DSR of inpatient admissions (aged 20+) (2014/15)
Vascular dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (aged 65+) (2014/15)
Vascular dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (aged 20+) (2014/15)
Unspecified dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (aged 65+) (2014/15)
Unspecified dementia: DSR of inpatient admissions (aged 20+) (2014/15)
Dying well
Directly Age Standardised Mortality Rate: People with dementia aged 20+ (2014)
Directly Age Standardised Mortality Rate: People with dementia aged 65+ (2014)
Deaths in Usual Place of Residence: People with dementia aged 65+ (2014)
Place of death - care home: People with dementia aged 65+ (2014)
Place of death - hospital: People with dementia aged 65+ (2014)
Place of death - home: People with dementia aged 65+ (2014)
The regional values for the indicator 2012/13 - Age standardised rate of people (aged 65+) with a mention of vascular dementia using inpatient hospital services per 100,000 resident population have been revised.
First version released