Table 2.

Estimated number of older people and younger adults with dementia receiving long‐term care by severity of dementia and care settings in England, 2015 (thousand persons)

	Mild Dementia		Moderate Dementia		Severe Dementia	Total
	No Dependency	With Care Needs	No Dependency	With Care Needs
Older people
Community care
No care	19.8	17.3	31.3	43.0	8.6	119.9
Unpaid care only	2.0	26.1	11.2	93.1	60.8	193.3
Social care only	0.0	7.6	0.0	9.0	4.9	21.4
Both	0.0	7.7	0.0	29.6	28.1	65.3
Residential care	0.0	29.1	0.0	20.7	201.0	250.8
Total (older people)	21.8	87.7	42.5	195.4	303.4	650.8

	Mild Dementia		Moderate Dementia		Severe Dementia	Total
Younger adults
Community care
No care	3.8		0.5		0.0	4.3
Unpaid care only	3.6		0.7		0.0	4.3
Social care only	5.4		1.0		0.2	6.6
Both	7.8		2.6		0.3	10.7
Residential care	0.7		8.7		2.1	11.6
Total (younger adults)	21.5		13.4		2.6	37.5

Sources: Calculated from the MODEM cost‐of‐illness models.