FIGURE 1a.

Age and sex standardized rates of hospital use in the year following diagnosis among community-dwelling adults 65 years or older with a new diagnosis of dementia in Quebec, Canada, from 2000–2015.

The length of hospital stay was computed as the total number of hospital days during the follow-up period in persons with at least one hospitalization. The rate of at least one Emergency Department visit was computed on the entire cohorts. Rates are reported as per 1 person years for length of hospital stay, and mean number of emergency department visits. The remaining indicators are per 100 person years. Canadian census population of 2011 was used as the reference population for standardization. The 2014–2015 cohort is incomplete (See Appendix A).

ED: Emergency Department