Mean age of COVID-19 deaths for care home residents

You asked

FOI/2021/2323

Please can you tell me the mean age of death from COVID-19 for residents of care home and for the remaining COVID deaths, in July 2020 and currently.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

Mean age of COVID-19 deaths

Please find attached a link to the latest publication detailing Average age of death (median and mean) for deaths due to or involving COVID-19. This provides a monthly breakdown from March 2020 to April 2021.

Average age of death (median and mean) of persons whose death was due to COVID-19 or involved COVID-19, by sex, deaths registered in March 2020 to April 2021, England and Wales

Mean age of Care Home Residents

Unfortunately, we would be unable to provide you with Mean age of deaths involving or due to COVID-19 in care home residents. To fulfil this request, we would to create a bespoke analysis or table. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.

If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.