Hospital care for people with dementia 2016–17

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Release Date: 22 Aug 2019

Author: AIHW

Media release

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019. Hospital care for people with dementia 2016–17. Cat. no. AGE 94. Canberra: AIHW.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Hospital care for people with dementia 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hospital care for people with dementia 2016–17. AIHW, 2019.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hospital care for people with dementia 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Hospital care for people with dementia 2016–17, AIHW, Canberra.

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Dementia is a leading cause of illness and death among Australians. This report shows that in 2016–17:

there were about 94,800 hospitalisations of people who had at least 1 diagnosis of dementia
the majority (71%) of dementia hospitalisations were of the highest clinical complexity compared with 16% of hospitalisations without a diagnosis of dementia
the rate of dementia hospitalisations has decreased by almost a quarter in the last decade.

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