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

Table 7. Cause of death by age bands and own home as place of death.

CoD Own Home PoD by Five Year Age Bands
80–84 Yearsn = 145,460 85–89 Yearsn = 106,564 90–94 Yearsn = 54,687 95–99 Yearsn = 17,961 100+ Yearsn = 3,460
Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI)
Pneumonia 2.8 2.7–2.8 4.0 3.8–4.1 6.8 6.6–7.0 10.4 9.9–10.8 13.7 12.5–14.8
Cerebro-vascular 4.4 4.3–4.5 5.9 5.7–6.0 7.3 7.1–7.5 8.0 7.6–8.4 6.6 5.8–7.4
Circulatory 12.1 11.9–12.3 14.1 13.9–14.3 15.3 15.0–15.7 14.6 14.1–15.2 11.0 10.0–12.1
IHD 32.8 32.6–33.0 32.3 32.0–32.6 27.6 27.2–28.0 20.2 19.6–20.8 11.8 10.7–12.9
Respiratory (others) 8.2 8.0–8.3 7.3 7.2–7.5 6.2 6.0–6.4 5.7 5.4–6.1 5.4 4.7–6.2
Dementia and AD 1.3 1.2–1.3 2.2 2.1–2.3 3.2 3.0–3.3 3.7 3.4–4.0 2.7 2.2–3.3
Cancer 30.7 30.5–31.0 24.3 24.0–24.5 16.9 16.6–17.2 11.6 11.1–12.1 6.0 5.2–6.8
“Old age”/frailty 0.9 0.8–0.9 2.8 2.7–2.8 8.7 8.5–9.0 17.6 17.1–18.2 35.5 33.9–37.1
Other 6.8 6.7–7.0 7.2 7.1–7.4 7.9 7.7–8.1 8.2 7.8–8.6 7.3 6.4–8.1

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