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.