Mental Health Services Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 March 2015

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Ceisteanna (112)

Colm Keaveney

Ceist:

112. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health the peak age for admission into psychiatric care for persons under the age of 18 years of age, for persons between the ages of zero and 25, for all persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9398/15]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of Health

The latest available data requested by the Deputy, as recorded by the Health Research Board in respect of 2013, is outlined in the tables.

The first table relates to all child and adolescent admissions, to both adult units and child and adolescent units. This includes the mean age at admission for the 0-17 year group for all admissions to both adult, and child and adolescent units, and also the mean age for the group to adult units only.

The second table refers to admissions for the 0-24 year group to adult units, and the mean age at admission, as shown.

The third table refers to all admissions to adult units by the age groups shown, and the mean age at admission.

The Deputy will appreciate that the focus of this Government has been to modernise all aspects of our mental health services, in line with "A Vision for Change". In particular, we will continue to emphasise the need to enhance development of community based services, and promote the concepts of recovery and positive mental health at every opportunity.

Table 5.1 Child and adolescent admissions. All and first admissions. Gender and age. Ireland 2013. Numbers with percentages

Numbers Percentages

		All			First			All			First
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
12 years or under	0	4	4	0	4	4	0.00	1.52	0.96	0.00	1.99	1.26
13 years	5	12	17	5	11	16	3.31	4.55	4.10	4.31	5.47	5.05
14 years	11	36	47	10	28	38	7.28	13.64	11.33	8.62	13.93	11.99
15 years	19	45	64	16	35	51	12.58	17.05	15.42	13.79	17.41	16.09
16 years	54	77	131	42	59	101	35.76	29.17	31.57	36.21	29.35	31.86
17 years	62	90	152	43	64	107	41.06	34.09	36.63	37.07	31.84	33.75
Total	151	264	415	116	201	317	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00

Includes admissions to child and adolescent units

Mean age at admissions for 0-17 years group admitted to adult units and child and adolescent units is 15.82.

Mean age at admissions for 0-17 years group admitted to adult group only is 16.48.

Admissions for 0-24 years group to adult units

Number	-
Under 18	98
18-19	593
20-24	1589

Mean age at admission for 0-24 years to adult units is 20.88.

Table 2.3 All and first admissions. Gender and age. Ireland 2013. Numbers with rates per 100,000 total population

Numbers Rates

	All	First	All	First	All	First	All	First	All	First	All	First
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Under 18	52	46	98	43	38	81	-	-	-	-	-	-
18-19	283	310	593	159	141	300	490.7	551.1	520.5	275.7	250.7	263.3
20-24	920	669	1589	428	278	706	627.4	444.2	534.6	291.9	184.6	237.5
25-34	1964	1603	3567	675	570	1245	533.0	414.7	472.4	183.2	147.4	164.9
35-44	1960	1808	3768	633	499	1132	562.3	521.8	542.1	181.6	144.0	162.9
45-54	1573	1830	3403	472	456	928	545.7	628.2	587.2	163.7	156.5	160.1
55-64	1212	1522	2734	332	383	715	522.4	658.0	590.1	143.1	165.6	154.3
65-74	761	905	1666	241	259	500	508.1	583.7	546.5	160.9	167.0	164.0
75 and over	384	654	1038	197	251	448	410.5	477.3	450.2	210.6	183.2	194.3
Unspecified	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	9110	9347	18457	3180	2875	6055	400.8	403.7	402.3	139.9	124.2	132.0

Excludes admissions to child and adolescent units

Mean age at admissions for all ages to adult units 45.02 years