Notes

Acknowledgements

This report was prepared by the AIHW National Centre for Monitoring Dementia and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

We gratefully acknowledge Professor Henry Brodaty, Professor Annette Dobson, Dr Kaele Stokes, Professor Kaarin Anstey, Professor Lee-Fay Low, Professor Velandai Srikanth, Dr Anthony Hobbs, Karen Glennen and Linda Fardell who provided expert review.

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing funded this report.

Amendments

December 2024

  • On National policy response to dementia, text has been updated to reflect the release of the National Dementia Improvement Plan 2024–2034 and the National Dementia Action Plan Indicators Dashboard.
  • The number of people with younger onset dementia and with childhood dementia who accessed the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supports incorrectly referred to the number of participants with an approved NDIS plan, rather than the number of approved plans. Text references to these data have been updated to clarify that data refer to the number of approved NDIS plans.
  • Text references throughout this report to the National Dementia Data Improvement Plan 2024–2034 have been updated to reflect the updated title.

September 2024

  • First Nations population estimates were updated to those for 30 June 2021.
  • The text explaining childhood dementia NDIS data was amended to clarify that the data refer to people with an active NDIS plan.

June 2024 – The hover text in Figure 2.1: Prevalence of dementia in 2023: estimated number and rate, by age and sex, has been amended. Hover text over rates of dementia now clarify the values are a number per 1,000 population.

November 2023

  • The data for hospitalisations with dementia including supplementary codes was amended from 251,000 to 197,000 people with a sex split of 95,000 men and 102,000 women.
  • The data for hospitalisations with dementia including supplementary codes among First Nations people was amended from 4,200 to 3,100.

October 2023 – Table 15.9 'resistive behaviours' rows had 'no symptoms' and 'not stated' transposed incorrectly.

November 2022

  • Table S2.3 heading was updated to reflect the correct data year. 
  • A small typographical error in the 'Burden of disease' section was amended.