East Riding JSNA

Health and Wellbeing Assessment in the East Riding

Dementia

Introduction and Headlines

  • Dementia prevalence has risen in the East Riding over the last decade. Increases in diagnosis rates were interrupted by the pandemic and work is ongoing to regain targets.
  • Raising awareness, promoting diagnosis and supporting people to live as well as possible with dementia in communities is vital for the East Riding, given the ageing population.

The Need

Prevalence of Dementia across the East Riding has been rising steadily over the last decade. This is not unexpected with the area having an ageing population. The pandemic created additional challenges for people living with dementia and had an impact on accessing services. Work is ongoing across the system to improve diagnosis rates and ensure that people have access to appropriate support and information pre, during and post diagnosis. Voluntary Sector providers have recovered and increased the community support on offer for people living with dementia and their supporters. There is still an ongoing challenge with reaching out to isolated and rural communities to raise awareness.

Service Usage

Below is an interactive dashboard of dementia activity in the East Riding. The dashboards contain the diagnosis rate of dementia, grouped by primary care networks and general practices. In addition trend information of diagnosis rates overtime.

As yet the dementia diagnosis rate has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. The numbers of missing per PCN is calculated based on a national prevalence model based on the population aged 65 and over. The PCN numbers of missing an expected dementia diagnosis range from in the 20’s to the largest value of 125 people in a PCN.

Insight

The direction for dementia in the county is upward, with those 65 and over with dementia increasing by near 10,000 people by 2040 and mere 17 years into the future. What is most stark is that this a 60% increase on the 2020 prevalence, applying that demand to the same services to support individuals would likely be overwhelming economically. Changing how we support people with this condition is a must.

The Alzheimer’s Society report (May 2023) “Improving access to a timely and accurate diagnosis of dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland” highlights the barriers people living with dementia face in accessing a timely and accurate dementia diagnosis, and advocates for practical changes and tangible solutions.


The report, ‘Improving access to a timely and accurate diagnosis of dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland’, can be accessed by clicking here.

Assets

Dementia Voices co-produced information

This section provides some co-produced information relating to dementia, click on any of the bullet points to access the information.

Resources

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