Excess deaths from all causes, involving and with dementia as the underlying cause: Scotland 2020-2022

Secondary analysis of National Records of Scotland deaths data relating to people with dementia during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in different settings.


Footnotes

1. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/statistics/rgar/2019/Pages/cov-sec.html

2. http://www.healthscotland.scot/health-topics/dementia

3. https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2022-14.9-million-excess-deaths-were-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-2020-and-2021

4. The percentage of excess deaths may differ slightly from analysis in the current report as analysis in the NRS report is based on annual rather than weekly figures (corrected for number of days in weeks 1 and 53)

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