Alzheimer's Disease

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Health care use

Hospice care

• Number of hospice care discharges with Alzheimer's as primary diagnosis: 39,400 (2007)
• Percent of hospice care discharges with Alzheimer's as primary diagnosis: 3.8% (2007)

Source: Home Health Care and Discharged Hospice Care Patients: United States, 2000 and 2007, table 7 [PDF - 430 KB]

Nursing home care

• Number of residents with Alzheimer's: 231,900
• Percent of residents with Alzheimer's: 15.5%

Source: 2004 National Nursing Home Survey, Residents, table 33B [PDF - 719 KB]

 

Mortality

• Number of deaths: 19,003
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 25.7
• Cause of death rank: 6

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 9, 10 [PDF - 2.1 MB]

 

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