Dementia and Alzheimer disease has replaced ischaemic heart diseases as the leading cause of death in England and Wales, accounting for 11.6% of all deaths registered in 2015.
Ischaemic heart diseases was the second leading cause of death in England and Wales, with 11.5% of all deaths registered in 2015.
For males, ischaemic heart diseases was the leading cause of death accounting for 14.3% of all male deaths in 2015, compared with 14.8% in 2014.
For females, the leading cause of death was dementia and Alzheimer disease accounting for 15.2% of all female deaths, up from 13.4% in 2014.
But this is because we’re all living longer apparently.
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And a happy New Year to you too! 
Makes a change from reading threads about Christians being thrown to the Atheists Luckygirl and a damned sight less contentious 
Wasting away by the inability the eat and drink
Although a drip can be used for fluids
All in all a horrible undignified end of life
My Grandmother and Father both died in this manner.
I would have been arrested if I had allowed my little Manchester terrier (which also suffered from dementia) to die in such a manner. We were able to give her a painless dignified death.
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