Table 4. Cause of death by age bands and hospital as place of death.
CoD | Hospital PoD by 5 Year Age Bands | |||||||||
80–84 yearsn = 496,888 | 85– 89 yearsn = 452,161 | 90–94 yearsn = 268,059 | 95–99 yearsn = 84,324 | 100+ yearsn = 9,740 | ||||||
Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | |
Pneumonia | 7.3 | 7.2–7.3 | 9.7 | 9.6–9.8 | 13.1 | 13.0–13.3 | 16.5 | 16.3–16.8 | 21.8 | 21.0–22.6 |
Cerebro-vascular | 13.0 | 12.9–13.1 | 14.2 | 14.1–14.3 | 14.8 | 14.7–14.9 | 14.2 | 13.9–14.4 | 12.4 | 11.8–13.1 |
Circulatory | 10.6 | 10.5–10.7 | 11.5 | 11.4–11.6 | 11.9 | 11.8–12.1 | 11.9 | 11.6–12.1 | 11.4 | 10.7–12.0 |
IHD | 18.5 | 18.4–18.7 | 18.1 | 18.0–18.2 | 16.6 | 16.5–16.8 | 15.1 | 14.8–15.3 | 11.9 | 11.2–12.5 |
Respiratory (others) | 10.9 | 10.8–10.9 | 9.6 | 9.5–9.7 | 8.2 | 8.1–8.3 | 7.7 | 7.5–7.9 | 6.9 | 6.4–7.4 |
Dementia and AD | 2.5 | 2.5–2.6 | 3.6 | 3.5–3.6 | 4.3 | 4.3–4.4 | 4.7 | 4.5–4.8 | 3.1 | 2.8–3.5 |
Cancer | 19.6 | 19.4–19.7 | 14.5 | 14.4–14.6 | 10.2 | 10.1–10.3 | 6.9 | 6.7–7.1 | 4.5 | 4.1–4.9 |
“Old age”/frailty | 0.4 | 0.3–0.4 | 0.8 | 0.8–0.8 | 2.1 | 2.1–2.2 | 4.1 | 3.9–4.2 | 9.7 | 9.1–10.2 |
Other | 17.3 | 17.1–17.4 | 18.0 | 17.9–18.1 | 18.6 | 18.5–18.8 | 19.1 | 18.8–19.3 | 18.3 | 17.5–19.1 |
AD, Alzheimer disease; CoD, cause of death; IHD, ischaemic heart disease; PoD, place of death.