Data shows that 5,404 people died due to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease during the pandemic, a 52.2% increase compared to the five year average.
Studies
Data suggests that a fifth of people in their 50s and 60s have seen their physical health deteriorate during the lockdown period.
The study highlights how telecare is delaying a move to a care home by nearly nine months and enabling councils to redeploy millions in social care funding.
More than 200 people with a learning disability have died as a result of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 over the period of one month.
The findings follow ONS data last month which revealed that care workers were twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than health care workers.
The study suggests that the risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms may not simply be due to exposure to the virus in care homes.
More than 460 people with a learning disability have died from coronavirus since the start of the outbreak, new data shows.
The new report from the CQC lays bare the impact of COVID-19 on domiciliary care providers and their staff across England.
Over 3,000 deaths were reported to CQC among home care service users in the past month, compared with just under 1,200 in same period over previous years.
Among healthcare workers, rates of death were not found to be statistically different to rates of death involving the general working population.