Table. 1 Socio-demographic characteristics among men and women 65 years and older with and without a dementia diagnosis (%)
| Â | Men Cohabiting | Men Living alone | Men | Women Cohabiting | Women Living alone | Women | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | No dementia diagnosis | Dementia diagnosis | No dementia diagnosis | Dementia diagnosis | Total | No dementia diagnosis | Dementia diagnosis | No dementia diagnosis | Dementia diagnosis | Total | Â |
Age | |||||||||||
  Mean(std) | 73.7 (6.7) | 79.9 (6.8) | 74.8 (7.8) | 80.9 (7.7) | 74.2 (7.2) | 72.7 (6.1) | 79.1 (6.8) | 77.9 (8.7) | 84.2 (7.2) | 75.8 (8.1) | 75.0(7.8) |
  65–69 | 32.7 | 8.3 | 31.4 | 9.5 | 31.8 | 36.8 | 9.5 | 21.2 | 3.9 | 27.7 | 29.6 |
  70–74 | 28.9 | 14.1 | 25.9 | 13.3 | 27.6 | 30.1 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 7.3 | 24.3 | 25.8 |
  75–79 | 18.5 | 24.2 | 16.8 | 18.7 | 17.9 | 18.0 | 24.3 | 16.9 | 13.3 | 17.3 | 17.6 |
  80–84 | 11.5 | 26.1 | 11.7 | 22.8 | 11.8 | 9.7 | 25.9 | 15.8 | 22.1 | 13.3 | 12.6 |
  85–89 | 6.1 | 19.7 | 8.5 | 21.3 | 7.2 | 4.2 | 17.2 | 14.1 | 28.7 | 10.0 | 8.7 |
  90–94 | 2.0 | 6.9 | 4.5 | 11.5 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 8.7 | 19.3 | 5.5 | 4.4 |
  95+ | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
Years with dementia diagnosis | |||||||||||
  Mean(std) |  | 3.3 (2.5) |  | 3.5 (2.5) |  |  | 3.5 (2.5) |  | 3.7 (2.5) |  |  |
Days in hospital last 12 month | |||||||||||
  0 | 95.8 | 86.4 | 94.9 | 82.7 | 95.3 | 96.6 | 89.1 | 95.0 | 84.8 | 95.5 | 95.4 |
  1–5 days | 2.6 | 4.8 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
  6–10 days | 0.7 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
  11–30 days | 0.8 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 5.7 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
  31–60 days | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
  61–365 days | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Type of municipality | |||||||||||
  Urban | 28.5 | 36.2 | 29.7 | 36.9 | 29.1 | 28.1 | 36.9 | 31.8 | 42.7 | 30.4 | 29.8 |
  Semi-urban | 39.8 | 34.8 | 38.1 | 34.4 | 39.1 | 40.0 | 34.5 | 38.5 | 31.9 | 39.0 | 39.0 |
  Rural | 31.8 | 29.0 | 32.2 | 28.6 | 31.9 | 31.9 | 28.6 | 29.7 | 25.4 | 30.6 | 31.2 |
Education | |||||||||||
  Compulsory | 33.4 | 36.3 | 40.0 | 43.5 | 35.9 | 30.9 | 38.2 | 40.2 | 47.9 | 36.2 | 36.1 |
  Upper secondary | 39.4 | 37.4 | 38.4 | 37.1 | 39.0 | 41.3 | 38.5 | 37.0 | 34.0 | 38.9 | 38.9 |
  Tertiary | 26.2 | 24.8 | 19.9 | 17.4 | 23.9 | 27.0 | 22.1 | 20.5 | 15.4 | 23.3 | 23.6 |
  Missing | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
  n | 574,716 | 9458 | 331,089 | 7814 | 923,077 | 479,538 | 7033 | 575,694 | 19,067 | 1,081,332 | 2,004,409 |