Cognitive impairment in elderly people: population based estimate of the future in England, Scotland, and Wales: Fig 1

Abstract

Financing long term institutional care for elderly people is a contentious political issue.Cognitive impairment is the main reason for such care, 1 and to inform the policy debate we constructed a population based set of estimates of the future number of elderly people and the characteristics of cognitive impairment among them on the basis of a national survey of disability in adults by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. 2 We report future trends based on stable age specific rates of cognitive impairment and disability.