Suicide deaths where dementia and Alzhiemer's disease were mentioned on the death certificate in England and Wales 2010 to 2019

FOI REF: FOI-2023-1184

You asked

Please could I request more infortmation regarding the number of suicide deaths where dementia and Alzhiemer's diseases were mentioned on the death certificate, deaths registered in England and Wales between 2010 and 2019.

We said

Thank you for your request.

Our mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. All the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules.   

The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:  

a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or\ b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury  

We hold the following user requested dataset:  

Number of suicide deaths where dementia and Alzheimer's disease were mentioned on the death certificate, deaths registered in England and Wales between 2010 and 2019 

If this does not meet your needs, we can create something further for you.  

Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are also available to order via our user requested data service. Such extracts  are subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs under the ONS Charging Policy.  

If you would like to discuss further or to obtain a quote for a bespoke output, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk