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. 2014 Jun 3;11(6):e1001653. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001653

Table 6. Cause of death by five year age band and residential home as place of death.

CoD Residential Care Home PoD by Five Year Age Bands
80–84 Yearsn = 55,916 85–89 Yearsn = 86,325 90–94 Yearsn = 89,742 95–99 Yearsn = 48,610 100+ Yearsn = 12,369
Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI)
Pneumonia 6.9 6.7–7.1 8.9 8.7–9.0 11.6 11.4–11.8 14.3 14.0–14.6 16.6 15.9–17.2
Cerebro-vascular 17.0 16.7–17.3 16.4 16.2–16.7 14.8 14.5–15.0 12.3 12.0–12.6 9.1 8.6–9.6
Circulatory 7.7 7.5–7.9 8.9 8.7–9.1 9.9 9.7–10.1 9.9 9.7–10.2 8.9 8.4–9.4
IHD 12.7 12.5–13.0 12.7 12.5–12.9 12.0 11.8–12.2 10.2 9.9–10.4 7.0 6.5–7.4
Respiratory (others) 8.0 7.8–8.2 7.4 7.2–7.6 6.4 6.2–6.6 6.0 5.7–6.2 5.7 5.3–6.1
Dementia and AD 15.7 15.4–16.0 15.9 15.7–16.2 14.0 13.8–14.3 11.8 11.5–12.1 6.3 5.9–6.7
Cancer 16.8 16.5–17.1 13.1 12.9–13.3 9.5 9.3–9.7 6.9 6.7–7.1 4.0 3.6–4.3
“Old age”/frailty 3.2 3.1–3.4 6.1 6.0–6.3 12.4 12.2–12.6 20.3 19.9–20.7 35.9 35.1–36.8
Other 12.0 11.7–12.2 10.5 10.3–10.7 9.5 9.3–9.7 8.4 8.1–8.6 6.6 6.2–7.1

AD, Alzheimer disease; CoD, cause of death; IHD, ischaemic heart disease; PoD, place of death.