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Dementia: Men Face Higher Mortality Risk After Diagnosis
By Alice Roberts | LOS ANGELES – 2025/08/18 10:33:48
A new US study reveals that while women are more frequently diagnosed with dementia, men face a substantially increased risk of death following the diagnosis and require more frequent hospitalizations.
The US analysis, encompassing 5.7 million dementia patients aged 65 and over, indicates that men have a 24 percent higher risk of death compared to women after a dementia diagnosis, even after accounting for age, pre-existing conditions, and socioeconomic status. Data from 2014 to 2021 showed that 27.2 percent of men died within the first year after diagnosis, compared to only 21.8 percent of women.
The study also highlighted disparities in healthcare utilization.Men were hospitalized more often (50.5 percent vs. 46.9 percent), with a particularly significant difference in stays related to neurodegenerative diseases or behavioral disorders, where the risk for men was 46 percent higher. Additionally, men more frequently received hospice care, neurological imaging, and specialized therapies.
women and Dementia: A Matter of Longevity
Despite the higher mortality rate in men post-diagnosis,women are more likely to develop dementia.This is largely attributed to their longer life expectancy, resulting in a higher absolute number of women dying from the disease. While men face a poorer prognosis with dementia, the disease affects a larger proportion of women in the population.The difference in dementia-related deaths between the sexes is not due to women having lower survival chances after diagnosis,but rather as they are more prone to developing dementia and tend to live longer.
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