Table 1 Characteristics of deceased persons with dementia aged 65 or over, stratified by place of death
Overall (n = 1646) | Home (n = 327) | Hospital (n = 473) | Palliative care unit (n = 6) | Retirement or nursing home (n = 815) | Hospice (n = 14) | No details (n = 11) | ||||||||
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% | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | |
Women | 67.3 | 1108 | 64.5 | 211 | 55.4* | 262 | 83.3 | 5 | 75.6* | 616 | 42.9 | 6 | 72.7 | 8 |
Men | 32.7 | 538 | 35.5 | 116 | 44.6* | 211 | 16.7 | 1 | 24.4* | 199 | 57.1 | 8 | 27.3 | 3 |
Age (mean / SD) | 86.3 ± 6.9 | 85.8 ± 6.8 | 84.2* ± 6.5 | 81.5 ± 7.4 | 87.8* ± 6.8 | 81.1 ± 6.7 | 84.5 ± 5.4 | |||||||
Age (median, 0.5 quantile) | 86.7 | 86.4 | 84.6 | 84.9 | 88.2 | 81.9 | 83.9 | |||||||
Age (0.25 quantile) | 82.0 | 81.7 | 80.1 | 74.5 | 83.6 | 79.3 | 80.7 | |||||||
Age (0.75 quantile) | 90.7 | 90.4 | 88.9 | 86.7 | 92.0 | 85.5 | 86.7 | |||||||
Age, women (mean / SD) | 87.7 ± 6.6 | 87.2 ± 6.6 | 85.8 ± 6.4 | 80.7 ± 7.9 | 88.8* ± 6.4 | 82.6* ± 2.4 | 84.7 ± 6.3 | |||||||
Age, men (mean / SD) | 83.3 ± 6.5 | 83.4 ± 6.4 | 82.1 ± 6.0 | 85.5 ± 0 | 84.7 ± 6.8 | 80.0 ± 8.7 | 84.1 ± 2.9 | |||||||
Pneumonia | 25.2 | 415 | 19.3 | 63 | 39.1* | 185 | 0 | 0 | 19.9 | 162 | 28.6 | 4 | 9.1 | 1 |
Aspiration | 10.0 | 164 | 9.5 | 31 | 15.6* | 74 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 58 | 7.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sepsis | 5.7 | 93 | 1.2 | 4 | 14.4* | 68 | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | 19 | 7.1 | 1 | 9.1 | 1 |
Cardiac failure | 43.6 | 718 | 45.9 | 150 | 44.2 | 209 | 50.0 | 3 | 42.8 | 349 | 14.3 | 2 | 45.5 | 5 |
Myocardial infarction | 4.8 | 79 | 4.6 | 15 | 7.2 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ICB and/or cerebral stroke | 13.0 | 214 | 13.1 | 43 | 10.8 | 51 | 16.7 | 1 | 14.2 | 116 | 14.3 | 2 | 9.1 | 1 |
Malignant tumour | 13.4 | 220 | 12.8 | 42 | 13.3 | 63 | 33.3 | 2 | 12.3 | 100 | 71.4* | 10 | 27.3 | 3 |
COPD | 6.1 | 100 | 5.8 | 19 | 7.6 | 36 | 16.7 | 1 | 5.2 | 42 | 7.1 | 1 | 9.1 | 1 |
Renal failure | 15.4 | 253 | 12.5 | 41 | 19.7* | 93 | 33.3 | 2 | 14.4 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Parkinson’s disease | 9.4 | 154 | 8.0 | 26 | 11.4 | 54 | 16.7 | 1 | 9.0 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Comorbidity (mean) | 1.5 ± 1.0 | 1.3 ± 0.9 | 1.8 ± 1.0 | 1.7 ± 0.8 | 1.3 ± 0.9 | 1.5 ± 0.7 | 1.1 ± 0.8 | |||||||
0 Comorbidity | 14.9 | 245 | 16.8 | 55 | 5.9* | 28 | 0.0 | 0 | 19.6 | 160 | 0.0 | 0 | 18.2 | 2 |
1 Comorbidity | 40.6 | 669 | 45.3 | 148 | 33.4* | 158 | 50.0 | 3 | 42.3 | 345 | 57.1 | 8 | 63.6 | 7 |
2 Comorbidities | 31.1 | 512 | 27.8 | 91 | 39.1* | 185 | 33.3 | 2 | 28.0 | 228 | 35.7 | 5 | 9.1 | 1 |
3 Comorbidities | 10.6 | 175 | 8.6 | 28 | 15.9* | 75 | 16.7 | 1 | 8.5 | 69 | 7.1 | 1 | 9.1 | 1 |
4 Comorbidities | 2.2 | 36 | 1.5 | 5 | 4.9* | 23 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.0 | 8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
≥ 5 Comorbidities | 0.5 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |