*2.1. Dementia*

Dementia is a condition that is not consistently captured in individual datasets and is generally poorly captured in nationally representative surveys. The AIHW's capacity to monitor and report on dementia has been transformed through data integration, which has enabled the following key achievements:


Data integration has also extended the use of existing data. For example, the AIHW has developed models that identify predictors of early dementia in a dataset that contains no dementia diagnosis information [4]. Ultimately, this information can be used to more

accurately estimate dementia incidence and prevalence, as well as contribute to filling information gaps in the primary and specialist care domains.

The AIHW's dementia data integration projects are providing new and important information on people with dementia in Australia, making use of data from the five-yearly Australian Census of Population and Housing, plus welfare data that would previously have been of little use for studies of dementia without data integration.
