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Report: A quarter of COVID-19 fatalities in England and Wales have dementia

People with dementia accounted for a quarter of all COVID-related deaths in England and Wales, and three-quarters of all deaths in care facilities globally, The Guardian reports data shows. The London School of Economics and University College London are looking at the mortality rate of those with dementia in a regularly updated report.

According to their research, up to 75% of COVID-19 deaths globally in care facilities are those with dementia as an underlying condition.

People with dementia account for 25% of COVID-related deaths in England and Wales, 31% in Scotland and 19% in Italy. Age is the biggest risk factor for dementia and older people are the most at-risk group for coronavirus, with 86% of all deaths among people aged 65 and over.

The organisation Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) said the global community must form an action plan to protect those with dementia and that further data on high COVID-19 death rates was urgently needed.

ADI CEO, Paola Barbarino said in The Guardian that emerging data, including findings from the LSE and UCL report, was extremely worrying and called on governments to act immediately.

 

[link url="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/01/quarter-covid-victims-england-wales-have-dementia-study"]Full report in The Guardian[/link]

 

[link url="https://ltccovid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/International-report-on-the-impact-of-COVID-19-on-people-living-with-dementia-19-August-2020.pdf"]LSE and UCL report[/link]

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