Year: 2014
Module:Dementia
Variable:DEMKNOW1 - DEMKNOW9

Have you ever personally known anyone with dementia or have it yourself?

These tables show the percentage of respondents who identified each instance.

 

%

No, I don't know anone who has or had dementia 35
Yes, my job involves/involved working with people who have dementia 8
Yes, I have dementia myself 0
Yes, my partner or a member of my family 28
Yes, a friend I know fairly well 12
Yes, a friend or acquaintance I know less well 14
Yes, a colleague/someone at my work 2
Yes, someone else 10
Not sure 4

 

Go to results for men and women, people of different ages and people of different religions.
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Results for men and women

%

  MaleFemale
No, I don't know anone who has or had dementia 39 32
Yes, my job involves/involved working with people who have dementia 6 10
Yes, I have dementia myself 0 0
Yes, my partner or a member of my family 26 30
Yes, a friend I know fairly well 11 13
Yes, a friend or acquaintance I know less well 12 16
Yes, a colleague/someone at my work 2 2
Yes, someone else 9 11
Not sure 6 3

  

 

Results for people of different ages

%

  18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
No, I don't know anone who has or had dementia 49 41 39 36 22 27
Yes, my job involves/involved working with people who have dementia 13 14 6 9 8 3
Yes, I have dementia myself 0 0 0 0 0 1
Yes, my partner or a member of my family 16 31 30 30 33 26
Yes, a friend I know fairly well 2 5 10 14 11 23
Yes, a friend or acquaintance I know less well 6 7 10 15 22 21
Yes, a colleague/someone at my work 1 2 2 1 3 3
Yes, someone else 5 10 11 7 17 11
Not sure 12 7 2 2 2 4

 

  

Results for people of different religions

%

  CatholicProtestantNo religion
No, I don't know anone who has or had dementia 36 31 42
Yes, my job involves/involved working with people who have dementia 9 8 4
Yes, I have dementia myself 0 1 0
Yes, my partner or a member of my family 28 31 25
Yes, a friend I know fairly well 10 15 11
Yes, a friend or acquaintance I know less well 11 18 12
Yes, a colleague/someone at my work 2 2 3
Yes, someone else 12 10 6
Not sure 5 2 6

 

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