Geographical variation in health service use by people living with dementia

Figure 4.4 is an interactive map and bar chart showing variation in ED visits and hospital stays by SA4 region and sex for people in the dementia study cohort living in the community or living in residential aged care.

Figure 4.4: Total ED visits and public hospital stays by people in the dementia cohort, by place of residence, SA4 region of residence and sex, 2019

Notes

1. The dementia study cohort refers to 158,730 people aged 30 and over who were living in Australia in 2019 and had a dementia record in the NIHSI.
2. The geographies in this report are based on where a person lived, not where they received services. Data are only presented for states/territories with hospital data in the NIHSI.  
3. ‘Percentage’ is the proportion of people in the dementia cohort with at least one service recorded in the NIHSI in 2019.
4. Age-standardised rates were calculated where population and service counts allowed (see Data tables S4.1–S4.10).
5. A region is blank if a value could not be published due to data quality or confidentiality concerns.
6. Only public hospital data were included in this analysis: some of the observed variation may be due to the availability and use of private hospitals.

Data tables: Total ED visits and public hospital stays by people in the dementia cohort, by place of residence, SA4 region of residence and sex