Paper published looking at the prevalence of living alone with dementia
Springer Nature Link has published a paper entitled, ‘Prevalence of living alone with dementia and other progressive neurological conditions: findings from primary care data in England’.
This research found that in 2023 there were 205,507 people with dementia in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) database, with 40% living alone. Differences were noted relating to factors including sex, ethnicity and region, with researchers concluding that the proportion of people living alone with dementia has increased since 2009.
You can find the paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-025-04443-x