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People with dementia in hospitals in New South Wales 2006-07
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Topic: Dementia
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012) People with dementia in hospitals in New South Wales 2006-07, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 03 December 2023.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2012). People with dementia in hospitals in New South Wales 2006-07. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. People with dementia in hospitals in New South Wales 2006-07. AIHW, 2012.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. People with dementia in hospitals in New South Wales 2006-07. Canberra: AIHW; 2012.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2012, People with dementia in hospitals in New South Wales 2006-07, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report examines the experiences of the 252,700 people aged 50 and over who stayed for at least one night in a New South Wales public hospital in 2006-07. Slightly more than 8% of patients (20,800 people) were identified as having dementia. Even allowing for age and sex differences, people with dementia had much higher hospitalisation rates than those without dementia: 26% compared with 12%. They also tended to stay longer in hospital and were more likely to enter or return to residential care on discharge from hospital, or to die in hospital.
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-368-8
- Cat. no: AUS 165
- Pages: 46